[reportlab-users] cgi-problem with reportlab

[Tim Roberts]

On Tue, 9 Sep 2003 12:51:30 +0100, Proboscis Admin <admin@proboscis.org.uk> 
wrote:
>
>ive made a tool using reportlab but it requires the text to be imported 
>from the html form.im using CGI for that but I am getting a key error 
>due to the cgi.py module in python which is raising an exception 
>because it can not get the text.i think the problem is referring the 
>python/reportlab code to the html form does anyone have an idea or 
>advice?
>I have used the same input names as in the html form.

You will have to be much more specific.  Including snippets of code and the 
exact error message are a must.

However, it is much more likely that you have a cgi problem, not a ReportLab 
problemn.  We might want to redirect this to comp.lang.python.

The cgi.py module can be a bit picky.  Your capitalization must match 
exactly; if the form has:
   <input type=text name=MyText>
then you must use
  q = cgi.FieldStorage()
  s = q['MyText'].value

Also note that if you do not fill in a field, the field name will not appear 
in the FieldStorage object at all.  That's a common error.  Fortunately, it's 
easy to check for that:

  if q.has_key('MyText'):
    s = q['MyText'].value
  else:
    s = None


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