In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Amer Neely <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Amer Neely wrote: >> TheFlyingDutchman wrote: >>> On Sep 12, 5:30 pm, Amer Neely <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> I'm a complete newbie with Python, but have several years experience >>>> with Perl in a web environment. >>>> >>>> A question I have, if someone here is familiar with Perl, does Python >>>> have something like Perl's 'here document'? I've just searched and read >>>> some postings on generating HTML but they all seem to refer to various >>>> template utilities. Is this the only way, or am I missing something? I'm >>>> used to generating X/HTML by hand, which makes the here document in Perl >>>> ideal for me. Also, many times a client already existing HTML code that >>>> I can use in a script. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Amer Neely >>>> w:www.webmechanic.softouch.on.ca/ >>>> Perl | MySQL programming for all data entry forms. >>>> "Others make web sites. We make web sites work!" >>> >>> I am not sure if this is what you are looking for, but Python has a >>> special string with 3 quotes that I believe duplicates part of the >>> functionality of a here document: >>> >>> myHmtlHeader = """ >>> <head attribute = "abc"> >>> <title>My Page</title> >>> </head> >>> """ >>> >>> print myHtmlHeader >>> >>> >>> outputs: >>> >>> >>> <head attribute="abc"> >>> <title>My Page</title> >>> </head> >>> >> >> Well, I have checked everything I can but I'm getting '500 Internal >> Server Error'. The log files aren't helpful: >> [Thu Sep 13 03:43:00 2007] [error] [client 24.235.184.39] Premature end >> of script headers: /home/softouch/public_html/cgi-bin/scratch/hello.py >> >> I can't even get it to run on my home PC running Apache + Win2K. Same >> error. >> >> My script: >> #!/usr/bin/python >> import cgitb; cgitb.enable(display=0, logdir=".") >> import sys >> sys.stderr = sys.stdout >> print "Content-Type: text/html" >> print >> >> print """ >> <html> >> <body> >> <div align="center"><font style="font-family:verdana; size:18px">Hello >> from Python</font></div> >> <br> >> Goodbye. >> </body> >> </html> >> """ >> > >I should have added that it runs from the command line OK. . . . Yes, it should work fine. Do the things you'd do if it were Perl source: when you say "it runs from the command line OK", do you mean invocation of /home/softouch/public_html/cgi-bin/scratch/hello.py gives sensible results? Does your Web server recognize that .py is a CGI extension? What are the permissions on /home/softouch/public_html/cgi-bin/scratch/hello.py?
Might your server have an issue with "Content-Type" vs. "Content-type"? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list