[Tutor] python myspace module?

[nephish]

Hey there Ed, 
	if you pull this off, let us know. i have wanted to do this very
thing, but just don't have the time.
	sk


On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 14:24 -0700, Danny Yoo wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 25 Oct 2005, Ed Hotchkiss wrote:
> 
> > looking to write a myspace wrapper/module. what is the best way
> > (hopefully using the stdlib not an outside module) to connect to a
> > website and (if possible, otherwise ill have to code it?) access forms
> > with GET POST blah blah blah ...
> 
> Hi Ed,
> 
> We do have some rudimentary access by using libraries like urllib and
> urllib2.  Let's look at urllib for the moment:
> 
>     http://www.python.org/doc/lib/module-urllib.html
> 
> By default, it send GET queries, but if we pass in a data argument to its
> open() function, it can perform a POST.  So for really quick-and-dirty
> stuff, urllib can do the trick.
> 
> 
> For anything more sophisticated, we may want to look at some tools like
> mechanize:
> 
>     http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/mechanize/
> 
> which can help provide the illusion of a stateful session with a web
> server.
> 
> 
> Best of wishes!
> 
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