A "Best of the Best Practices" (BOBP) guide to developing in Python.
- "Build tools for others that you want to be built for you." - Kenneth Reitz
- "Simplicity is alway better than functionality." - Pieter Hintjens
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CGI Debugging - sometimes you have a web page that uses CGI and you need to see what data is being POSTed.
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| #!/usr/bin/env python | |
| """ | |
| This script is based on https://cgi.tutorial.codepoint.net/file-upload but with changes as needed. | |
| To use: | |
| - Download the web page to be debugged. | |
| - Edit it to replace `action="/cgi-bin/cgi-post"` with `action="/cgi-bin/cgi-post.py"` (on Windows on Linux you can simply rename this file to not have .py at the end. | |
| - place in a cgi-bin subdirectory of the one where you saved the web page | |
| - start a simple web server with ` python -m http.server 8001 --bind localhost --cgi` |
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/ bobp-python.md
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December 8, 2025 02:37
A "Best of the Best Practices" (BOBP) guide to developing in Python.