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Re: CGI: Assign FieldStorage values to variables

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On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 2:19 AM, Gnarlodious <gnarlodious@gmail.com> wrote:
> I should add that this does what I want, but something a little more
> Pythonic?
>
> import cgi, os
> os.environ["QUERY_STRING"] = "name1=Val1&name2=Val2&name3=Val3"
> form=cgi.FieldStorage()
>
> form
>
> dict = {}
> for key in form.keys(): dict[ key ] = form[ key ].value
>
> dict
> locals().update(dict)
> name3

Try it within a function. It will fail epic-ly in CPython and most
other implementations.
Read the note in the locals() docs:
http://docs.python.org/library/functions.html#locals

Cheers,
Chris

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CGI: Assign FieldStorage values to variables Gnarlodious <gnarlodious@gmail.com> - 2011-08-17 02:06 -0700
  Re: CGI: Assign FieldStorage values to variables Gnarlodious <gnarlodious@gmail.com> - 2011-08-17 02:19 -0700
    Re: CGI: Assign FieldStorage values to variables Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-08-17 10:41 +0100
    Re: CGI: Assign FieldStorage values to variables Chris Rebert <clp2@rebertia.com> - 2011-08-17 09:23 -0700
  Re: CGI: Assign FieldStorage values to variables Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-08-17 10:25 +0100
    Re: CGI: Assign FieldStorage values to variables Gnarlodious <gnarlodious@gmail.com> - 2011-08-17 20:52 -0700
  Re: CGI: Assign FieldStorage values to variables Gnarlodious <gnarlodious@gmail.com> - 2011-08-17 02:20 -0700
  Re: CGI: Assign FieldStorage values to variables Nobody <nobody@nowhere.com> - 2011-08-17 13:45 +0100

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