Question

I am very new to python and having to get into this stuff for a simple program to integrate with an ASP.NET application that I am building. The pseudo code is as follows.

1. Get two parameters from request. (A ASP.NET will be calling this url by POST and sending two parameters)
2. Internally execute some business logic and build some response.
3. Write the response back so that the ASP.NET app can proceed.

Step 2 and 3 are already in place and working too but not able to find a solution for Step 1 (I know it should be very simple and know how to do it in Java/.NET/PHP and RoR but not in Python and the online docs/tutorials are not helping my cause). I am running python on apache using mod_python.

Any help here is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance
Vijay

Answer 1

Here is a good beginner’s tutorial for mod_python.

As far as I understand your question you have a mod_python-based script and you want to read a POST parameter. Therefore you only have to use the form object which is automatically provided by mod_python:

myparameter = form.getfirst("name_of_the_post_parameter")

You can find the documentation over here.

Note that this solution is when your server is configured with PythonHandler mod_python.psp which will allow you to use “Python Server Pages” (special <% %> tags, automatically created variables like form, …). If you’re writing a normal mod_python handler, then it would look something like that:

from mod_python import util

def handler(req):
   form = util.FieldStorage(req, keep_blank_values=1)
   myparameter = form.getfirst("name_of_the_post_parameter")
   ...other stuff...