On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:04:35 +0530, Sohrab Pawar wrote: > I'm a python noob so don't be mean :) I have a URL like > http://mySite.net?userID=398&age=28 I'm trying to create a new python > script that is called when a user click a button "Redirect". When a user > clicks the "Redirect" button, I want to send the user to either of the 2 > pages, depending on the age of the user (sent as a parameter using the > URL). > > What is the best way to > 1. Read the URL and get the parameters (age=28 in this case) 2. Redirect > the the user accordingly > > I have done this kind of thing in a jsp/servlet environment but I have > no idea how to proceed in the Python world.
If you really got that string you can use the modules `urlparse` and `cgi` to get the query part: In [48]: url = 'http://mySite.net?userID=398&age=28' In [49]: urlparse.urlparse(url) Out[49]: ('http', 'mySite.net', '', '', 'userID=398&age=28', '') In [50]: cgi.parse_qs(urlparse.urlparse(url)[4]) Out[50]: {'age': ['28'], 'userID': ['398']} But maybe you should read about the `cgi` module and how to use it. Ciao, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list