Re: [Tutor] Environment Variables On Windows

2004-12-27 Thread Alan Gauld
> print "Hi there, ",os.environ["USERNAME"] Oops, sorry, I said os.getenv(), looks like my C background showing through :-) Alan g. ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

Re: [Tutor] Environment Variables On Windows

2004-12-27 Thread Alan Gauld
> I tried to do this: > > import os > import cgitb; cgitb.enable() > print "Content-type: text/html\n\n" > print "Hi there, ",os.system("echo %USERNAME%") If you ignore the environment variable bit, does it work with a hard coded name? If so then try using the function os.getenv() to fetch the va

Re: [Tutor] Environment Variables On Windows

2004-12-27 Thread Alan Gauld
> Anyway, I got to the Using Environment Variables chapter that is in > this page: http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/cgi/ch02_02.html. > This is UNIX environment variables (as I understand), and I guess they > will not work on Windows... They should work on both. THere are some variables that are di

Re: [Tutor] Environment Variables On Windows

2004-12-26 Thread John Purser
script itself... I tried to do this: import os import cgitb; cgitb.enable() print "Content-type: text/html\n\n" print "Hi there, ",os.system("echo %USERNAME%") But I don't get anything in the browser (500 error - Internal Server Error) and when I run the script in IDLE I get: Hi there, 0 I guess

Re: [Tutor] Environment Variables On Windows

2004-12-26 Thread Mark Kels
> Morning Mark, > > Happy New Year, Merry Christmas, and a jolly Winter Solstice Season! > > Whenever you're talking about how to do something in Windows it REALLY > helps when you include WHICH windows you're working with. > > I believe the following will allow you to manipulate windows > envir

Re: [Tutor] Environment Variables On Windows

2004-12-26 Thread John Purser
Mark Kels wrote: Hello to all :-) I'm writing a CGI script (one of my first ever CGI programs and I'm using this tutor to learn CGI: http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/cgi/ This isn't a python tutor, but the introductions says that any language will be good for this tutor. Anyway, I got to the Using E

[Tutor] Environment Variables On Windows

2004-12-26 Thread Mark Kels
Hello to all :-) I'm writing a CGI script (one of my first ever CGI programs and I'm using this tutor to learn CGI: http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/cgi/ This isn't a python tutor, but the introductions says that any language will be good for this tutor. Anyway, I got to the Using Environment Varia