[Tutor] urllib

Tue Sep 12 12:11:39 CEST 2006

Patricia wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have used urllib and urllib2 to post data like the following:
> 
> dict = {}
> dict['data'] = info
> dict['system'] = aname
> 
> data = urllib.urlencode(dict)
> req = urllib2.Request(url)
> 
> And to get the data, I emulated a web page with a submit button:   
>     s = "<html><body>"
>     s += "<form  action='a_method' method='POST'>"
>     s += "<textarea cols='80' rows='200' name='data'></textarea>"
>     s += "<input type='text' name='system'>"
>     s += "<input type='submit' value='Submit'>"
>     s += "</form></body></html>"
> 
> 
> I would like to know how to send a file. It's a text file that will be 
> gzipped before being posted. I'm using python version 2.2.3.

There are some old examples hereA
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/146306

I think the modern way uses email.MIMEMultipart but I don't have an 
example handy.

Kent