How to fill a form

[John J. Lee]

Sulsa <sulsa at gazeta.pl> writes:

> On Tue, 15 Aug 2006 03:37:02 -0000
> Grant Edwards <grante at visi.com> wrote:
> 
> > On 2006-08-15, Sulsa <sulsa at gazeta.pl> wrote:
> > 
> > > I want to fill only one smiple form so i would like not to use
> > > any non standard libraries.
> > 
> > Then just send the HTTP "POST" request containing the fields
> > and data you want to submit.
> 
> but i don't know how to post these data if i knew there there would
> be no topic.

Something like this (UNTESTED, and I can never remember all the
details, which are fiddlier than they may look):

import urllib, urllib2
query = urllib.urlencode([
    ("username", "sulsa"), ("password", "sulsa"),
    ("redirect", ""), ("login", "Login"),
    ])
r = urllib2.urlopen("http://example.com/login.php", query)
print r.read()


Note that urllib and urllib2 both, as their main job in life, open
URLs.  urllib also has miscellaneous functions related to URLs &c.  I
use urllib2 above because I know it better and because it can handle
some stuff that urllib doesn't (it's designed more for extensibility
than is urllib).


John