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 −

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 ""
print ""
print ""
print ""
print ""
print "
 Selected Subject is %s
" % subject
print ""
print ""