what does 'cgi.parse_qs' mean

Question

i find this code :

def _oauth_parse_response(body):
    p = cgi.parse_qs(body, keep_blank_values=False)

but i don't know what is mean

thanks

Answer 1

docs.python.org has an excellent search engine, which will show you this:

This function is deprecated in this module. Use urllib.parse.parse_qs() instead. It is maintained here only for backward compatibility.

and once you follow the link, you see:

Parse a query string given as a string argument (data of type application/x-www-form-urlencoded). Data are returned as a dictionary. The dictionary keys are the unique query variable names and the values are lists of values for each name.

and so on.

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Answer 2

Parses a query string into a dictionary.

Deprecated in python >= 2.6.

Answer 3

It means "look on the cgi object for an attribute called parse_qs, and call it as a function with body as a positional argument and keep_blank_values as a keyword argument with the value of False".

For the definition of cgi look further up, but it probably is the stdlib module of the same name.