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4.6 <tt class="module">util</tt> - Miscellaneous Utilities
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The <tt class="module">util</tt> module provides a number of utilities handy to a web
application developer similar to those in the standard library
<tt class="module">cgi</tt> module. The implementations in the <tt class="module">util</tt> module
are much more efficient because they call directly into Apache API's
as opposed to using CGI which relies on the environment to pass
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The recommended way of using this module is:
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from mod_python import util
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<dt><em class="citetitle"><a href="http://CGI-Spec.Golux.Com/"
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<dd>for detailed information on the CGI specification
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