Trying to send key value pair to perl script using subprocess

[Pervez Mulla]

Hi,

I am trying to send key:value pair to perl script via sub-process module . I just tried with simple example it works fine. How can I pass key:value pair to perl script .....?

Ans also how can send multiple input fields value to perls script> Below is my code

view.py

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from django.http import HttpResponseRedirect, HttpResponse

from django.shortcuts import get_object_or_404, render_to_response

from django.template import RequestContext

from subprocess import Popen, PIPE, sys

import subprocess 

def ex(request):

    myName = 'Pervez'

    if 'firstname' in request.POST:

        myName = (request.POST['firstname'])

        p = Popen(['/home/pervez/Desktop/simplepage/simplepage/templates/ex.pl', myName],stdin=PIPE, stdout=PIPE)

        p.stdin.close()

        result = p.stdout.read()

    return render_to_response('ex.html', {'name': result},context_instance=RequestContext(request))

ex.pl

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#!/usr/bin/perl

$|=1;            # Flush immediately.

     print "Content-Type: text/plain\n\n";

     read(STDIN,$form, $ENV{'CONTENT_LENGTH'}); 

     foreach $pair (split('&', $form)) {

         if ($pair =~ /(.*)=(.*)/) {  # found key=value;

         ($key,$value) = ($1,$2);     # get key, value.

         $value =~ s/\+/ /g;  # substitute spaces for + signs.

         $value =~ s/%(..)/pack('c',hex($1))/eg;

         $inputs{$key} = $value;   # Create Associative Array.

         }

     }

 

 foreach $item (keys(%inputs)) {

     print "$item - $inputs{$item}\n"; 

 }

ex.html

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{{ name }}

<FORM METHOD="POST" ACTION="" NAME="SIGNUPFORM">

   {% csrf_token %}

   <fieldset>

   <legend>Signup Form</legend>

   <table>

   <tr><td>First Name</td><td><INPUT SIZE=20 NAME="firstname"> </td></tr>

   <tr><td>Last Name</td><td><INPUT SIZE=20 NAME="lastname"></td></tr>

   <tr><td>User Name</td><td><INPUT SIZE=20 NAME="username"></td></tr>

   <tr><td>Password</td><td><INPUT SIZE=20 NAME="password"></td></tr>

   <tr><td>Verify Password</td><td><INPUT SIZE=20 NAME="vpass"></td></tr>

   <tr><td>Your E-mail</td><td><INPUT SIZE=20 NAME="email_id"></td></tr>

   <tr><td align="right">&nbsp;</td>

<td><input type="submit" value="Submit">

   <input type="Reset" value="Clear Form">

</td>

   </tr>

   </table>

   </fieldset>

 </form>

Please Help me

Pervez