How to set proxy for a python script to run

[Soltys]

Adam pisze:
> Hi, everyone, I am using /usr/share/system-config-language/
> language_gui.py in Python.
> For some reason I have to bypass the firewall using a proxy. I read
> the urllib reference and set http_proxy="my proxy". But it didn't
> work. Is there anyway that we can set the proxy?


I did sth. like this:

proxy_url = "http://user:pass@proxy.yourproxy.org:8080"
proxy_support = urllib2.ProxyHandler({'http': proxy_url})
opener = urllib2.build_opener(proxy_support)
urllib2.install_opener(opener)
src = urllib2.urlopen(url)

now you can easily read from src.

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