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noo not the cgi module :(

by robobro 7y ago

zestyping 7y ago
I was wondering about that too. CGI is still just about the easiest and most universally supported way to serve dynamic web content from a Python script. The complaint is that the module is designed poorly, which is fair; to remove CGI support without any "batteries included" replacement seems a bit of a shame, though.
- skykooler 7y ago
  Especially as, if you're in a situation where you have to use CGI rather than a better server worker solution, you probably also don't have access to the environment to install pip packages.
- mjw1007 7y ago
  The cgi module doesn't actually contain anything CGI-specific. It dates from a time when "CGI" was a sensible shorthand for "handling http requests". What's actually in the module is a rather clunky, but serviceable, system for processing html form data.
ptx 7y ago
You can use wsgiref.handlers.CGIHandler instead, with the advantage of being able to easily move the application to some more appropriate WSGI environment later if needed.
draegtun 7y ago
You have to keep moving forward with the times! Perl removed CGI from its core back in 2014 - https://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/e9fa5a80 https://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/e9fa5a80