Hey there Ed, if you pull this off, let us know. i have wanted to do this very thing, but just don't have the time. sk
On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 14:24 -0700, Danny Yoo wrote: > > 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! > > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor