How to pass local variables from one cgi to another cgi in python

Question

I have a cgi webpage that I wrote using python. This page takes input from the user and directs him to another page. In the first page I am using local variables that I would like to send to the second page. Since these variables are not user input, they cannot be retrieved using form = cgi.FieldStorage(). So my question is, how do I retrieve variables (that were not inserted by the user) from the previous cgi page?

Answer 1

An HTML form can store hidden values.

Eg,

<input type="hidden" name="example" value="data1">

That input tag will not be visible on the Web page, but when the form is submitted your cgi script will receive a field named example that contains data1 .