> I was hoping for something magical like: > > gulp = cgi.StreamIO(" > http://www.foo.com/cgi-bin/responder.cgi?foo=hi&bar=there&bat=buddy").read() > > ... but for some reason not one of the python creators foresaw that I might > one day need them to do all the thinking, typing and other hard parts for > me! </rimshot>
Hi Doug, Try the 'urllib' client library. http://www.python.org/doc/lib/module-urllib.html The CGI server library is meant for servers, say, for the person who would be implmenting responder.cgi. If you need to do more complicated interactions as a client, then something like Mechanize might also do the trick: http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/mechanize/ but I'd recommend looking into urllib first to see if it's sufficient for your problem. > Oho! StringIO seems like it is my baby: > > dir(cgi.StringIO) > ['__doc__', '__init__', '__iter__', '__module__', 'close', 'flush', > 'getvalue', 'isatty', 'next', 'read', 'readline', 'readlines', 'seek', > 'tell', 'truncate', 'write', 'writelines'] Gotta cut you off there. This isn't what you want: it just turns out that the implementation of 'cgi' uses the StringIO Standard Library: http://www.python.org/doc/lib/module-StringIO.html but that's an internal detail of 'cgi' that you shouldn't need to worry about. > Am I on the right track here? I suspect there is some sort of super easy > way to accomplish this, but I am probably missing it. You are on the wrong track. *wink* No, you were sorta in the right direction, and your instincts are good. But next time, try looking at the documentation too --- it's good to practice using the reference docs. The documentation's at: http://www.python.org/doc/lib/ The Python Cookbook is also a good place to find out which libraries are relevant to the thing you're doing: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Python/Cookbook/ Best of wishes! _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor