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Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 09:23:01 -0700
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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