User:Emily/Prototyping/Trimester 03/04

birthday.cgi

command line -- go to "http://localhost:8000/"

python -m CGIHTTPServer

cp python script to CGI script

---

#!/usr/bin/python
import datetime
import cgitb; cgitb.enable()
import cgi

i = cgi.FieldStorage() 
year = (i.getvalue("year", ""))
month = (i.getvalue("month", ""))
day = (i.getvalue("day", ""))

#header announce doc type
print "Content-type:text/html;charset=utf-8"
print 

print "<h2>what day is it</h2>"
print '''
<style>
input, form { color: green }
input, form { font-family: verdana; font-size: 12px }
</style>
'''
print '''
<form action="">
what year were you born?<input type="text" name="year" value="{0}"> <br>
what month were you born?<input type="text" name="month" value="{1}"> <br>
what day were you born?<input type="text" name="day" value="{2}"> <br>
<input type="submit">
</form>
'''.format(year, month, day) #to store/keep the last input there
try:
	d = datetime.datetime(int(year), int(month), int(day))
	print d.strftime("You were born on a %A")
except ValueError:
	print "Hey please type only numbers!"

birthday.py (datetime module)

Version I

---

import datetime
while True:
	year = input("What year were you born?")
	# or we can use --> year = raw_input("What year were you born?")
	month = input("What month were you born?")
	day = input("What day were you born?")
	# print type(year), type(month)

	try:
		d = datetime.datetime(int(year), int(month), int(day))
		print d.strftime("You were born on a %A")
                # what does %A mean??
		break
	except ValueError:
		print "Hey please only type only numbers!"
		# pass

Version II (better)

---

import datetime
while True:
	try:
		year = int(raw_input("What year were you born?"))
		# "input" is not working here, use "raw_iput"
		month = int(raw_input("What month were you born?"))
		day = int(raw_input("What day were you born?"))
		# print type(year), type(month)

		d = datetime.datetime(year, month, day)
		print d.strftime("You were born on a %A")
		break
	except ValueError:
		print "Hey please only type only numbers!"
		# pass