Commit 6b5dbaa6 authored by Georg Brandl's avatar Georg Brandl

At least separate imports from other statements.

parent 4a698721
......@@ -99,7 +99,8 @@ simple CGI program::
# -*- coding: UTF-8 -*-
# enable debugging
import cgitb; cgitb.enable()
import cgitb
cgitb.enable()
print "Content-Type: text/plain;charset=utf-8"
print
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......@@ -67,16 +67,18 @@ Begin by writing ``import cgi``. Do not use ``from cgi import *`` --- the
module defines all sorts of names for its own use or for backward compatibility
that you don't want in your namespace.
When you write a new script, consider adding the line::
When you write a new script, consider adding these lines::
import cgitb; cgitb.enable()
import cgitb
cgitb.enable()
This activates a special exception handler that will display detailed reports in
the Web browser if any errors occur. If you'd rather not show the guts of your
program to users of your script, you can have the reports saved to files
instead, with a line like this::
instead, with code like this::
import cgitb; cgitb.enable(display=0, logdir="/tmp")
import cgitb
cgitb.enable(display=0, logdir="/tmp")
It's very helpful to use this feature during script development. The reports
produced by :mod:`cgitb` provide information that can save you a lot of time in
......@@ -470,9 +472,10 @@ discarded altogether.
Fortunately, once you have managed to get your script to execute *some* code,
you can easily send tracebacks to the Web browser using the :mod:`cgitb` module.
If you haven't done so already, just add the line::
If you haven't done so already, just add the lines::
import cgitb; cgitb.enable()
import cgitb
cgitb.enable()
to the top of your script. Then try running it again; when a problem occurs,
you should see a detailed report that will likely make apparent the cause of the
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......@@ -26,9 +26,10 @@ as well as the values of the arguments and local variables to currently running
functions, to help you debug the problem. Optionally, you can save this
information to a file instead of sending it to the browser.
To enable this feature, simply add one line to the top of your CGI script::
To enable this feature, simply add this to the top of your CGI script::
import cgitb; cgitb.enable()
import cgitb
cgitb.enable()
The options to the :func:`enable` function control whether the report is
displayed in the browser and whether the report is logged to a file for later
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