CGI script structure

• Check form fields

  • use cgi.FieldStorage class to parse query
    • takes care of decoding, handles GET and POST
    • "foo=ab+cd%21ef&bar=spam" -->{'foo': 'ab cd!ef', 'bar': 'spam'} # (well, actually, ...)

• Perform action

  • this is up to you!
  • database interfaces available

• Generate HTTP + HTML output

  • print statements are simplest
  • template solutions available

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