web.py: how to get POST parameter and GET parameter?

Question

I\'m new to web.py. I used PHP alot. In PHP, POST parameter and GET parameter is stored in different global variables

For example:

curl http:/

Answer 1

There's actually an (undocumented?) _method parameter that can be get, post or both (the default) to return variables from the different sources. See the source for web.input(). So for example:

get_input = web.input(_method='get')
post_input = web.input(_method='post')

However, I've used web.py a lot, and never needed this. Why do you need to distinguish between input parameters in the query string and the data?