Re: [Tutor] please help with simple python CGI script

2008-10-26 Thread Steve Willoughby
aivars wrote: Hello, Lie, I renamed the directory back to Cgi-bin and the scripts are NOT working. Going back to cgi-bin it works. I also do not understand why. Aivars 2008/10/26 Lie Ryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Sun, 26 Oct 2008 08:32:52 +, Alan Gauld wrote: "aivars" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [Tutor] please help with simple python CGI script

2008-10-26 Thread aivars
Hello, Lie, I renamed the directory back to Cgi-bin and the scripts are NOT working. Going back to cgi-bin it works. I also do not understand why. Aivars 2008/10/26 Lie Ryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sun, 26 Oct 2008 08:32:52 +, Alan Gauld wrote: > >> "aivars" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in mes

Re: [Tutor] please help with simple python CGI script

2008-10-26 Thread Lie Ryan
On Sun, 26 Oct 2008 08:32:52 +, Alan Gauld wrote: > "aivars" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>I finally get the script working! >> >> I renamed the script directory from Cgi-bin to cgi-bin just as Alan >> told. > > I'm glad it worked but I confess I'm not sure w

Re: [Tutor] please help with simple python CGI script

2008-10-26 Thread Alan Gauld
"aivars" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I finally get the script working! I renamed the script directory from Cgi-bin to cgi-bin just as Alan told. I'm glad it worked but I confess I'm not sure why it worked. The interpreter was apparently finding your script OK

Re: [Tutor] please help with simple python CGI script

2008-10-26 Thread aivars
I finally get the script working! I renamed the script directory from Cgi-bin to cgi-bin just as Alan told. Many thanks to all you who responded Aivars 2008/10/26 aivars <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Thanks John and Alan > > I get the following error when I run the script from IDLE: > > Traceback (mo

Re: [Tutor] please help with simple python CGI script

2008-10-25 Thread aivars
Thanks John and Alan I get the following error when I run the script from IDLE: Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Cgi-bin\friends1.py", line 15, in who = form['person'].value File "C:\Python25\lib\cgi.py", line 567, in __getitem__ raise KeyError, key KeyError: 'person' Ai

Re: [Tutor] please help with simple python CGI script

2008-10-25 Thread Alan Gauld
"aivars" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote still banging mu head with Wesley Chun's simple example - I'm not sure if this is significant but It gives me the following error: Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Cgi-bin\friends1.py", line 15, in Notice that the file path has Cgi no

Re: [Tutor] please help with simple python CGI script

2008-10-25 Thread aivars
It does not work neither as script or from command line. I will try to find the guy Wesley Chun and ask him 2008/10/25 John Pomni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > The script does not work from command line but I guess you do not have > any problems running it as CGI? > > I like cgitb modules for deb

Re: [Tutor] please help with simple python CGI script

2008-10-24 Thread aivars
Thanks very much, Kent, So it seems that directory /cgi-bin should be a subdirectory to that directory from which the web server was started/is running. That worked and Deitel's script - getting time displayed finally worked. still banging mu head with Wesley Chun's simple example - #!C:\python2

Re: [Tutor] please help with simple python CGI script

2008-10-24 Thread Kent Johnson
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 10:25 AM, aivars <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I am learning python. > > I start the python CGI server like this: > > python -m CGIHTTPServer (this syntax I saw in Wesley Chun's Core > Python Programming chapter 20.5) > > The server starts in command prompt on wind

[Tutor] please help with simple python CGI script

2008-10-24 Thread aivars
Hello, I am learning python. I start the python CGI server like this: python -m CGIHTTPServer (this syntax I saw in Wesley Chun's Core Python Programming chapter 20.5) The server starts in command prompt on windows XP by answering: Serving HTTP on 0.0.0.0 port 8000... Next I want to run this s