Submit and Succeed

Charles Hayden's Eliza: http://chayden.net/eliza/Eliza.html
Regular Expressions in Python: http://docs.python.org/library/re.html

Forms in HTML: http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/interact/forms.html

Behold the self-posting form:

#!/usr/bin/env python
#-*- coding:utf-8 -*-

import cgi
import cgitb; cgitb.enable()

query = cgi.FieldStorage()
text = query.getvalue("text", "")

## Alter text here
import re
text = re.sub(r"and (\w+)", r"and \1 and peanuts", text, flags = re.I)

print "Content-type: text/html"
print
print """
<html>
<head>
<style>
textarea {{
    font-size: 32px;
    width: 100%;
    border: 4px solid black;
    height: 400px;        
}}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<form action="success.cgi">
    <textarea name="text">{0}</textarea>
    <input type="submit">
</form>
</body>
</html>
""".format(text)

Afternoon Tutorial

Eleanor