trouble getting google through urllib

[Amit Khemka]

On 19 Dec 2006 16:12:59 -0800, Dr. Locke Z2A <DocZ2A at gmail.com> wrote:
> I looked at those APIs and it would appear that SOAP isn't around
> anymore and there are no APIs for google translate :(  Can anyone tell
> me how to set the user-agent string in the HTTP header?

import urllib2
req = urllib2.Request('http://www.google.com')
# add 'some' user agent header
req.add_header('User-Agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US;
rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050524 Fedora/1.5 Firefox/1.5')
up = urllib2.urlopen(req)

cheers,
amit
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