While waiting for my paid-for web-hosting company to get back to me about my difficulties running python scripts on their servers... http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/39b52bcf0dffec4c/4ff805bf283acc15?lnk=gst&q=adrian+smith&rnum=1&hl=en#4ff805bf283acc15 ...I went and found a free one as a stopgap. And it worked! I was as happy as a clam. But then it stopped working. Ah. I stripped the script down to the same minimalist hello-world effort I used previously:
#!/usr/local/bin/python import cgi print "Content-type: text/html\n" form = cgi.FieldStorage() print form["essay"].value (page here: http://essays.profusehost.net/) As before, this should print out the contents of a textarea going by the name of "essay". But it does nothing but throw internal server errors. The support guy looked at it and gave me this: Traceback (most recent call last): File "python1.cgi", line 6, in ? print form["essay"].value File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/cgi.py", line 559, in __getitem__ raise KeyError, key KeyError: 'essay' (http://www.profusehost.net/forum/support/10894-cgi-blink.html) He says I have a syntax error, though I'm b*ed if I can see where it could be. Can anyone here suggest anything? TIA for your forbearance etc. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
