On Tue, 25 Oct 2005, Ed Hotchkiss wrote:
> looking to write a myspace wrapper/module. what is the best way
> (hopefully using the stdlib not an outside module) to connect to a
> website and (if possible, otherwise ill have to code it?) access forms
> with GET POST blah blah blah ...
Hi Ed,
We do have some rudimentary access by using libraries like urllib and
urllib2. Let's look at urllib for the moment:
http://www.python.org/doc/lib/module-urllib.html
By default, it send GET queries, but if we pass in a data argument to its
open() function, it can perform a POST. So for really quick-and-dirty
stuff, urllib can do the trick.
For anything more sophisticated, we may want to look at some tools like
mechanize:
http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/mechanize/
which can help provide the illusion of a stateful session with a web
server.
Best of wishes!
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