On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 6:52 PM, cerr <ron.egg...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Why does this code: > > #!/usr/bin/python > > > import urllib2 > from binascii import hexlify, unhexlify > > host = "localhost" > uri="/test.php" > data ="\x48\x65\x6C\x6C\x6F\x57\x6F\x72\x6C\x64" #Hello World > url="http://{0}{1}?f=test".format(host, uri) > req = urllib2.Request(url, data,{'Content-Type': 'application/octet-stream'}) > req.get_method = lambda: 'PUT'
What does the above line do? is it the same as req.get_method = 'PUT' > response = urllib2.urlopen(req, 120) the docs say req should be a url. Is it? > retval = response.read() > print "RETVAL "+retval > > > > return me this: > > ./post.py > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "./post.py", line 13, in <module> > response = urllib2.urlopen(req, 120) > File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 126, in urlopen > return _opener.open(url, data, timeout) > File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 398, in open > req = meth(req) > File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 1116, in do_request_ > 'Content-length', '%d' % len(data)) > > > I don't get it, what's going on here? > > Thank you! > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list KInda of ducking your questions, but the requests module is a lot easier to use and understand:http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/ -- Joel Goldstick http://joelgoldstick.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
