urllib - changing the user agent

[Terry Carroll]

On 9 Jan 2004 05:09:41 -0800, michael at foord.net (Fuzzyman) wrote:

 [ wants to change the user-agent in HTTP request from urllib ]

Fuzzy --

I take the easy way out, and use urllib2, instead:

    url = "http//www.spam.com/eggs.html"
    req_headers = {
        'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT)',
        }
    req = urllib2.Request(url, None, req_headers)