4.4 util - Miscellaneous Utilities
Keywords: modpython

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4.4 `util` - Miscellaneous Utilities

The `util` module provides a number of utilities handy to a web application developer.

The functionality provided by `util` is also available in the standard Python library `cgi` module, but the implementation in `cgi` is specific to the CGI environment, making it not the most efficient one for mod_python. For example, the code in `util` does not use the environment variables since most of the information is available directly from the `Request` object. Some of the functions in the `util` module are implemented in C for even better performance.

The recommended way of using this module is:

      from mod_python import util

See Also:

Common Gateway Interface RFC Project Page
  for detailed information on the CGI specification

Subsections

- 4.4.1 FieldStorage class
  - 4.4.1.1 Field class
- 4.4.2 Other functions