$.ajax({
		url: "ajaxTest.py",
		type: "POST",
		data: { outputFormat:"pdf" },		
		success: function(result){
			console.log(result);
		}
	});

print(request.vars)

$(document).ready(function(){
    console.log("Document is ready!")
	
	$.ajax({
		url: "ajaxTest.py",
		type: "POST",
		data: { outputFormat:"pdf" },		
		success: function(result){
			console.log(result);
		}
	});
});

#!/usr/local/bin/python3.5

print("Content-type: text/html")
print()

print("Successful!!!!")
print(request.POST)

$.ajax({
	url: "ajaxTest.py",
	type: "POST",
	data: { outputFormat:"pdf" },		
	success: function(result){
		console.log(result);
	}
});

import cgi, cgitb 

form = cgi.FieldStorage()
print(form)

form.getvalue('outputFormat')