Python equivalent of LWP and HTTP in Perl

[Erik Johnson]

"Irmen de Jong" wrote

> >   my($ua) = LWP::UserAgent->new;
> >   my $req = GET "$uri";
> >   $req->header(Referer => "$referer");
> >   $ua->proxy('http', 'http://localhost:8080/'); # Proxomitron
> >   $response = $ua->request($req);
> >   $respcode = $response->code;
>
>
> import urllib
> proxies = {'http': 'http://localhost:8080/'}
> response = urllib.urlopen("some_url", proxies=proxies).read()

... which is short and clean, but ignores the Referer header.
I have worked with httplib some, but not urllib. Maybe urllib can do this,
but may I suggest checking out httplib:
http://docs.python.org/lib/httplib-examples.html

-ej