How can I pass objects in a web page?

[Brian Bull]

I have written something that creates about 5000 unique objects. I
want to have a link on a page that when clicked will take the user to
a page that will "describe" the contents of the object. The problem
seems to be passing the object from one static page to another via a
link. Is this possible?

[drs]

Re: How can I pass objects in a web page?

"Cliff Wells" <clifford.wells @comcast.net> wrote in message
news:mailman.36 06.1095716168.5 135.python-list@python.org ...[color=blue]
> On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 13:59 -0700, Brian Bull wrote:[/color]

* * *
[color=blue][color=green]
> > passing the object from one static page to another via a
> > link. Is this possible?[/color]
>
> The web, being stateless, usually requires that you "rebuild the world"
> with every mouse click.[/color]

Depending upon what the objects are like, python provides the pickle module
which allows for doing this without setting up a database. Simply have the
first page embed a pickled object in a hidden input html tag that is sent
back to the server for the object inspection screen. Not secure of course,
and conceivably very slow for large objects*, but pretty easy to do.

-d

* for large objects, dump them to a file on the server and return some
unique id instead of the whole object.