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+"""
+Tutorial - Passing variables
+
+This tutorial shows you how to pass GET/POST variables to methods.
+"""
+
+import cherrypy
+
+
+class WelcomePage:
+
+    def index(self):
+        # Ask for the user's name.
+        return '''
+            <form action="greetUser" method="GET">
+            What is your name?
+            <input type="text" name="name" />
+            <input type="submit" />
+            </form>'''
+    index.exposed = True
+    
+    def greetUser(self, name = None):
+        # CherryPy passes all GET and POST variables as method parameters.
+        # It doesn't make a difference where the variables come from, how
+        # large their contents are, and so on.
+        #
+        # You can define default parameter values as usual. In this
+        # example, the "name" parameter defaults to None so we can check
+        # if a name was actually specified.
+        
+        if name:
+            # Greet the user!
+            return "Hey %s, what's up?" % name
+        else:
+            if name is None:
+                # No name was specified
+                return 'Please enter your name <a href="./">here</a>.'
+            else:
+                return 'No, really, enter your name <a href="./">here</a>.'
+    greetUser.exposed = True
+
+
+import os.path
+tutconf = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'tutorial.conf')
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    # CherryPy always starts with app.root when trying to map request URIs
+    # to objects, so we need to mount a request handler root. A request
+    # to '/' will be mapped to HelloWorld().index().
+    cherrypy.quickstart(WelcomePage(), config=tutconf)
+else:
+    # This branch is for the test suite; you can ignore it.
+    cherrypy.tree.mount(WelcomePage(), config=tutconf)