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Re: Simple module for python-based cgi?

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* Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org> [2024-06-29 21:46]:
> I used to use the cgi module to implement simple python-based cgi
> scripts for mere http forms. But it is getting deprecated
> https://peps.python.org/pep-0594/#cgi
> and concerning form support:
> 
>   FieldStorage/MiniFieldStorage has no direct replacement,
>   but can typically be replaced by using multipart
>   (https://pypi.org/project/multipart/) (for POST and PUT requests) or
>   urllib.parse.parse_qsl (for GET and HEAD requests)
> 
> But that multipart project doesn't seem to be packaged in Debian?
> (python-multipart seems to be something else, that doesn't seem to
> actually provide form content?)
> 
> Do we actually have something in Debian python to replace cgi's
> FieldStorage in a simple way?

I haven't used it myself so I'm not sure it would fit your use case, and it
might not exactly count as "simple", but Debian does have
python3-requests-toolbelt which seems to provide a
requests_toolbelt.multipart.decoder.MultipartDecoder.

- Fay

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Simple module for python-based cgi? Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org> - 2024-06-29 22:10 +0200
  Re: Simple module for python-based cgi? Fay Stegerman <flx@obfusk.net> - 2024-06-29 22:30 +0200
  Re: Simple module for python-based cgi? eevelweezel <eevel.weezel@gmail.com> - 2024-06-29 23:50 +0200

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