'print' in a CGI app.

Andrew Chalk

In a Python 2.2 app. running under CGI the statements

print "Hello\n"
print "World"

print both words on the same line in IE6. How do I print the second one on a
new line (i.e. respect the \n in the first statement).

Many thanks!

Jul 18 '05 #1

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Dennis Reinhardt

> print "Hello\n"

print "World"

Try

print "Hello \n"
print "World"

or try

print "<pre>"
print "Hello\n"
print "World"
print "</pre>"

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Dennis Reinhardt

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Jul 18 '05 #2

Irmen de Jong

Andrew Chalk wrote:

In a Python 2.2 app. running under CGI the statements

print "Hello\n"
print "World"

print both words on the same line in IE6. How do I print the second one on a
new line (i.e. respect the \n in the first statement).

Umm. This has nothing to do with Python... but hey :-)
Unless your CGI script is set to content-type: text/plain,
you're supposed to print valid HTML.
You'll have more success if you print the following:

print "<html><body>" # begin HTML
print "<pre>" # HTML 'preformatted' block
print "Hello\n"
print "World"
print "</pre>" # end 'preformatted block'
print "</body></html>" # end HTML
--Irmen

Jul 18 '05 #3

Andrew Chalk

Thanks to you, Timo, Dennis and Irmen. The trick was what I was using
but I thought I must be missing something.

Regards
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Andrew Chalk wrote:
In a Python 2.2 app. running under CGI the statements

print "Hello\n"
print "World"

print both words on the same line in IE6. How do I print the second one on a new line (i.e. respect the \n in the first statement).

How about (untested):

print "Hello \n"
print "World"

...since, AFAIK, it should be HTML that CGI's output...?

--
Timo Virkkala | wt@nic.fi

"In the battle between you and the world, bet on the world."

Jul 18 '05 #4

Patrick Lioi

"Andrew Chalk" <ac****@XXXmagnacartasoftware.com> wrote in message news:<ER**********************@newssvr30.news.prod igy.com>...

In a Python 2.2 app. running under CGI the statements

print "Hello\n"
print "World"

print both words on the same line in IE6. How do I print the second one on a
new line (i.e. respect the \n in the first statement).

Many thanks!

Run the app, then go to "View"->"Source" in the browser. $10 says
they are on separate lines. All browsers are expecting HTML output
from CGI scripts. HTML ignores whitespace. The tag comes in
handy for forcing an endline:

print "Hello "
print "World"

Jul 18 '05 #5

Andrew Clover

"Andrew Chalk" <ac****@XXXmagnacartasoftware.com> wrote:

print "Hello\n"
print "World" print both words on the same line in IE6.

This is because IE is treating the page as HTML by default, where
whitespace is not significant. If this is not what you want, set the
'Content-Type' HTTP header to something else, eg.:

#!/usr/bin/python

print 'Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8'
print

print 'Hello'
print 'World'

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Andrew Clover
mailto:an*@doxdesk.com
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Jul 18 '05 #6

dan

This is a random guess, but try:

print "Hello "
print "World"

"Andrew Chalk" <ac****@XXXmagnacartasoftware.com> wrote in message news:<ER**********************@newssvr30.news.prod igy.com>...

In a Python 2.2 app. running under CGI the statements

print "Hello\n"
print "World"

print both words on the same line in IE6. How do I print the second one on a
new line (i.e. respect the \n in the first statement).

Many thanks!

Jul 18 '05 #7

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