Google Chart API, HTTP POST request format.

[Chris Rebert]

> On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 7:52 PM, Chris Rebert <clp2 at rebertia.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 7:36 PM, Slie <stackslip at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > http://code.google.com/apis/chart/docs/post_requests.html
>> >
>> > Google will return a chart in your browser from a URL that you have
>> > built. If your URL is bigger then 2K characters it will allow you to submit
>> > POST requests.
>> >
>> > They gives examples of HTML, JavaScript, and PHP POST requests. Is there
>> > a way I can submit a request with Python? Or possibly submit the HTML,
>> > JavaScript or PHP using python?(That was a long shot thought). If I do that
>> > I would need to find out what to do with the .PNG it gives me.
>> >
>> > Am I headed in the right direction, is the above paragraph about
>> > submitting an HTML form from my program even logical?
>>
>> You should probably first try one of the existing Python wrappers for
>> Google's chart API and see if that meets your needs:
>> http://code.google.com/p/google-chartwrapper/
>> http://pygooglechart.slowchop.com/

On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 9:16 PM, Garland Fulton <stackslip at gmail.com> wrote:
> I tried to use "pygooglechart.py" and I have been trying to get it set up
> all day actually along with several other graphing API's.
> I just found out that there is a problem with numpy and python 3.1 that is
> why I moved from the API's. Should I change version just for
> these library's?
> Should I be learning Python on 3.1?

Most third-party libraries have yet to be ported to Python 3.1 (with a
few notable exceptions). If you actually want to write
non-(toy/demo/trivial) programs, you should probably use Python 2.x.
Python 3.1 is fine for learning the basics of the language; once
you've done that, learning the Python 2.x differences and wart
workarounds is not hard.

(Also, in the future, please don't top-post.)

Cheers,
Chris
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