Question

I’m trying to send a HTML form input from a page to a python script. This is just for testing purposes so ignore the poor code. Basically I don’t know how to define the action= part to reference the search() function in the python script. I just need to get the basic functionality working. I’m using web2py as the framework which is probably relevant:

Controller: default.py

def index():
    return dict()

def search():
    import urllib
    q=request.vars.q
    result1 = urllib.urlopen('http://www.google.com/search?q=%s' % q)
    return dict(result1=result1)

default/search.html:

{{extend 'layout.html'}}
<form method=get action=???>
<input name=q>
<input type=submit value=search>
</form>

Answer 1

It looks like the form itself is served via the search() function, so you can just set action="", and it will submit back to the search() function. Also, you should put quotes around your HTML attribute values, and you should add some logic to check whether there is anything in request.vars.q, because when the page first loads with an empty form, there is no query to process.