On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 3:21 PM, MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
> Victor Subervi wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Steve Holden <st...@holdenweb.com<mailto:
>> st...@holdenweb.com>> wrote:
>>
>> MRAB wrote:
>> > Victor Subervi wrote:
>> > [snip]
>> >>
>> >> Code snippet:
>> >>
>> >> def cgiFieldStorageToDict(fieldStorage):
>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> Further hint ...
>>
>> >> params = {}
>> >> for key in fieldStorage.keys():
>> >> params[key] = cgi.FieldStorage[key].value
>> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> > This is your problem.
>>
>>
>> The problem is that I don't understand this code that I exactly copied
>> from a Web page tutorial. Can you folks point me to tutorials where I can
>> learn to comprehend this code? Specifically, the line in question. How is it
>> that one can code "params[key]" (what does that mean?) and the other side,
>> what does that mean
>>
>> If you got it from:
>
> Recipe 81547: Using a simple dictionary for CGI parameters
> http://code.activestate.com/recipes/81547/
>
> then no, it wasn't "exactly copied". If you'd copy-and-pasted it then it
> would've been correct, as well as much quicker to do...
I'm afraid to say you're right again :-}
beno
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