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[CGI] Basic newbie error or server configuration error?

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Hello

Apache fails running this basic CGI script that I found on the Net:

www.acme.com/cgi-bin/test.py?name=myname
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#!/usr/bin/env python

# Import modules for CGI handling
import cgi, cgitb

cgitb.enable()

# Create instance of FieldStorage
form = cgi.FieldStorage()

# Get data from field 'name'
#name = form['name'].value
name = form.getvalue('name')
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This is what I get:
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"Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was
unable to complete your request.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to
use an ErrorDocument to handle the request."
===========

FWIW, the script lives in www/cgi-bin/ where it should, was chmoded to
755, and I put the following .htaccess file:
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Options +ExecCGI
AddHandler cgi-script .py
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I'm not sure where to look for an error. Could it be some non-printed,
bad characters that prevent Python from compiling the source code?

Thanks for any help.

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[CGI] Basic newbie error or server configuration error? Gilles <nospam@nospam.com> - 2012-08-20 13:41 +0200
  Re: [CGI] Basic newbie error or server configuration error? Gilles <nospam@nospam.com> - 2012-08-20 13:56 +0200
  Re: [CGI] Basic newbie error or server configuration error? Rod Person <rodperson@rodperson.com> - 2012-08-20 07:59 -0400
    Re: [CGI] Basic newbie error or server configuration error? Gilles <nospam@nospam.com> - 2012-08-20 15:50 +0200
      Re: [CGI] Basic newbie error or server configuration error? Hans Mulder <hansmu@xs4all.nl> - 2012-08-20 16:56 +0200
        Re: [CGI] Basic newbie error or server configuration error? Gilles <nospam@nospam.com> - 2012-08-20 17:51 +0200

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