Kun wrote: > I currently have a python-cgi script that extracts data from a mysql > table. I would like to save this data as a string and send it to a > recipient via email. > > I know how to send email using the smtp lib, but what I do not know his > how to save a portion of the page as a string. Any pointers?
#At the top of your CGI script import these import sys import StringIO #Create a StringIO object to hold output string_io = StringIO.StringIO() #Save the old sys.stdout so we can go back to it later old_stdout = sys.stdout #Normal output goes here #To start capturing output replace sys.stdout with the StringIO object sys.stdout = string_io #Captured output goes here #To finish capturing sys.stdout = old_stdout #To get the captured text from the StringIO object do: captured_text = string_io.getvalue() #To output the captured text to the original sys.stdout #If this is omitted, the captured_text will not be sent to the browser old_stdout.write(captured_text) #You can repeat this capturing section several times and the output #will accumulate in the StringIO object. To clear the contents of the #StringIO object between sections do: #string_io.truncate(0) #More normal output goes here #Do whatever you want with captured_text here... #When finished with string_io, close it to free up the memory buffers string_io.close() -- Jesse Hager email = "[EMAIL PROTECTED]".decode("rot13") -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list