download web page with python

[Ng Pheng Siong]

According to  <geoff at gnaa.net>:
> I want to do this, but the web page (symantec's antivirus signature
> update page--http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/download.html) has a form
> to ask which product you want, then runs a CGI script, and gives you
> info back.

Something along these lines:

import urllib

url = "http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/cgi-bin/navsarc.cgi"
post_data = urllib.urlencode({"PROD":"N95", "LANG":"US"})
url_obj = urlopen(url, post_data)
print url_obj.readlines()


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