Hi Sancar, 1) PHP does some really nasty things in how it treats globals, and you will have to break yourself of those sorts of habits -- Python offers much cleaner alternatives, like grouping similar functionality into modules which can be imported; the import functionality in python is pretty flexible. Python won't pack a ton of garbage into a giant, global 'dictionary' (what python calls associative arrays). There are modules (bundled of code) which you can import to handle your needs.
2) Check out the traceback[1] module for retrieving the traceback info for logging to a file, and cgitb[2] modules for printing the traceback as HTML to your browser. 3) http://docs.python.org/ is a great place to start - it has a lot of well written and generally thorough documentation with examples 4) It's better to collect all your eventual output into a string that you print - there are examples at [3]. You can import from other modules as needed (even conditionally), grow your string for output, then finally print it like (this example was adapted from one found on [3]): output = '<html><head>' output += '<title>My Page</title>' output += '</head><body>' output += '<h1>Powers of two</h1>\n<ol>' for n in range(1,11): output += '<li>'+str(2**n)+'</li>' output += '</ol></body></html>' print output You can copy-paste this right into your Python interactive shell to see the output. Note: += is inline string concatenation. 5) You can get form state from the cgi module[4] and FormStorage object, and you can get server environment data from the os.environ[5] dictionary; Good luck and keep on learning! :-) - zeph References: 1: http://docs.python.org/library/traceback.html 2: http://docs.python.org/library/cgitb.html 3: http://gnosis.cx/publish/programming/feature_5min_python.html 4: http://docs.python.org/library/cgi.html 5: http://docs.python.org/library/os.html#process-parameters -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
