On Sat, 26 Nov 2005 13:26:11 +0100, Fredrik Lundh wrote: > Dan Stromberg wrote: > >> What's the best way of converting this: >> >> 'hide\\?http://www.dedasys.com/articles/programming_language_economics.html\x012005-07-20 >> 14:48' >> >> ...to something easily usable in a python CGI script? > > easily usable for what purpose? > > if you want to extract the URL that seems to be hidden in that string, > something like: > > url, junk = text.split("\x01", 1) > junk, url = url.split("\\?", 1) > > should work.
Um, yeah. I can work out this sort of thing. But I thought there might be a python module intended for parsing inputs to CGI scripts? Sometimes using a pre-written module can contend with issues you didn't know where going to come up... Thanks! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
