web scrapping - POST and auto-login

[james <at> hal-pc.org]

Max Erickson wrote:
>>>the entire 26 character string from site A, but [1] how do i
>>>crop it to 10 characters.
> 
> strings are slicable:

The only reason i've gotten this far is a basic understanding of syntax and 
programming in general :)
care to enlighten me a little on how to do that?

> As far as your other problem, it might make sense(I don't know...) to 
> just generate the post request for saving the new password yourself 
> and never bother with parsing/filling the form.

i'm not quite sure how to generate it from scratch.
thanks for the input/advice!