Newbie question - what's the term for input/output to a web page?

[Rick Dooling]

On Dec 21, 7:03 pm, Rachel Garrett <rmgarr... at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'd like to write a simple application that will accept input from the
> user, go out to a particular web page, and submit the user's input to
> the website. The results that are displayed by the web page should
> then be sent back to the application.

Try urllib2 module. Here's a mini howto

http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/articles/urllib2.shtml

rd