Posting html form values to python script

in the form action form action="", put the location of your cgi script and the value of the textbox will be passed to the cgi script. eg.

<form name="search" action="/cgi-bin/test.py" method="get">
Search: <input type="text" name="searchbox">
<input type="submit" value="Submit">
</form> 

in your test.py

import cgi
form = cgi.FieldStorage()
searchterm =  form.getvalue('searchbox')

thus you will get the key word entered in search text box in searchterm variable in python.

I had the problem with getting the code in browser. Installed python and xampp. I put the .py script in cgi-bin and I called it from an html page like that

<form name="input" action="../cgi-bin/name_of_script.py" method="get">

Put the html page in htdocs of xampp. In the httd.conf find the line

AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl .asp 

and change it to

AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl .asp .py

In the script add the version of the python you have for example I added

#!C:\Python27\python.exe

because I have installed python27 in the above directory.

Also if you print something in python put this line on top of the script

print "Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8\n\n";

The above script of the searchbox it worked fine for me. My operating system is Windows really torchered me, I searched and searched for the above solution.