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Comment by imurray | Hacker News Reader

While it's been coming for a long time, it's still frustrating to see the cgi module go. It's going to create a load of busy work to rewrite some low-traffic scripts.

Modules being removed [edit: in 3.13]: https://docs.python.org/dev/whatsnew/3.12.html#pending-remov...

Updating CGI scripts will be a bit fiddly: https://peps.python.org/pep-0594/#cgi

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There is CGIHandler that ships with python. Not many examples that are simple, so...

  #!/usr/bin/env python
  from wsgiref.handlers import CGIHandler

  def app(environ, start_response):
    start_response('200 OK', [('Content-Type', 'text/html')])
    return [
      b"<html><head><title>foo</title></head><body>bar</body></html>"
    ]

  if __name__ == '__main__':
    CGIHandler().run(app)

Thank you!

You linked to Python 3.13 removals.

Python 3.12 removals are here:

https://docs.python.org/dev/whatsnew/3.12.html#removed

Thanks. I did ctrl-f cgi as I knew its removal was coming and missed the heading. So one more point release of grace, but it's still coming soon.

Just copy out cgi.py and use it as a module.

https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/3.11/Lib/cgi.py

It's even vendored!

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