500 Internal Server Error while trying to write to a file in Python

Question

I have a python script save.cgi in public_html/menuProject/ on a server example.com

I'm able to access the script from the browser by calling example.com/menuProject/save.cgi?xml=Hello and display "hello", but when I try to write to a file, it gives me 500 internal server error.

import os, sys
import cgi

print "Content-Type: text/plain;charset=utf-8"
print

form = cgi.FieldStorage()
xml = form.getvalue("xml")
resultFile = "feed.xml"
print "hello"
with open(resultFile, "w") as f:
    f.write(xml)

Both save.cgi and feed.xml are in the same folder public_html/menuProject/ and the file permissions for menuProject and all files is : -rwxrwxrwx .

Can you please help me figure out why it still is giving me 500 internal server error?

Answer 1

UPDATE: Thanks to @Jon Clements

I did a : print sys.version and found out that the webserver version was 2.4 while the code was in 2.6

Got it working by removing the with .

import os, sys
import cgi

print "Content-Type: text/plain;charset=utf-8"
print

form = cgi.FieldStorage()
xml = form.getvalue("xml")
resultFile = "feed.xml"
print "hello"
f = open(resultFile, "w")
f.write(xml)