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How to pass Drop Down Box Data to Python CGI script?
Passing Drop Down Box Data to CGI Program
Drop Down Box is used when we have many options available but only one or two will be selected.
Here is example HTML code for a form with one drop down box −
<form action = "/cgi-bin/dropdown.py" method = "post" target = "_blank"> <select name = "dropdown"> <option value = "Maths" selected>Maths</option> <option value = "Physics">Physics</option> </select> <input type = "submit" value = "Submit"/> </form>
The result of this code is the following form −
Submit
Below is dropdown.py script to handle input given by web browser.
#!/usr/bin/python # Import modules for CGI handling import cgi, cgitb # Create instance of FieldStorage form = cgi.FieldStorage() # Get data from fields if form.getvalue('dropdown'): subject = form.getvalue('dropdown') else: subject = "Not entered" print "Content-type:text/html\r\n\r\n" print "<html>" print "<head>" print "<title>Dropdown Box - Sixth CGI Program</title>" print "</head>" print "<body>" print "<h2> Selected Subject is %s</h2>" % subject print "</body>" print "</html>"
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