On Tuesday, August 6, 2013 4:08:34 PM UTC-7, Joel Goldstick wrote: > 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'
I guess so, I got this from an example.... copy & paste :x > > > response = urllib2.urlopen(req, 120) > > > > the docs say req should be a url. Is it? no, it's an instance of req = urllib2.Request() > > > 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/ But there must be a way to get this working with urllib alone... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
