On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 7:35 PM, cerr <ron.egg...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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
That's not a very good answer! Honest, but really. Just because you can cut and paste, doesn't mean you are learning to program. > >> >> > 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... I'm sure there is. I'm not a pro at urllib, not even requests but when I have used it, it made a lot more sense. It got changed in python 3, so the python core group seemed not to like how the earlier modules worked. At any rate. wait a while. Someone on the list will give you more specific advice I'm sure > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- Joel Goldstick http://joelgoldstick.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
