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Receiving Data from an HTML File
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< HTML>
<form action="cgi-bin/action.py">
<paragraph>Enter your first name:</paragraph>
<input type="text" name="firstname" size="40">
<paragraph>Enter your last name:</paragraph>
<input type="text" name="lastname" size="40">
<input type="submit">
<input type="reset">
</form>
</HTML>
File: action.py
#!c:/Python25/python
import cgi
reshtml = """Content-Type: text/html\n
<html>
<head><title>Hello</title></head>
<body>
<h1>Welcome to a Python script!</h1>
<paragraph>You are identified as: %s</paragraph>
</body>
</html>"""
form = cgi.FieldStorage()
lastname = form['lastname'].value
firstname = form['firstname'].value
message = firstname + " " + lastname
print reshtml % message
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