David Rasmussen wrote:
> I do know about www.python.org. I do an extensive amount of googling in
> general and searching at python.org before I ask questions such as this.
> I did stumble upon urllib, urllib2 and httplib in the documentation, but
> let me assure you, as a newbie, that finding this documentation doesn't
> make one go "ah, this is what I was looking for".
> Specifically, I can't see from reference documentation whether something
> even smarter or more highlevel exists.
hmm. so if that was your question, why did you write:
I am writing a program that has to do some lightweight HTTP
communication with a webserver on the internet. I haven't checked, but
I'm sure I could do something lowlevel like opening a socket myself and
then send/receive everything myself on this (how do I do that?), but
I'd bet that Python have some module which is more high level.
Something that would just let me connect using an URL, send a few GETs,
and receive the answer as a string/file etc.
? ("I haven't checked ... but I'd bet" doesn't really sound like "I've checked
the docs and found a couple of modules that seem to do this, but I wonder
if there is something better out there")
...especially if you had already seen the tutorial's
Internet Protocols
There are a number of modules for accessing the internet and processing
internet protocols. Two of the simplest are urllib2 for retrieving data
from urls /.../
(followed by a brief example that shows how to read from an URL)
or the reference guide's
urllib -- Open arbitrary resources by URL
This module provides a high-level interface for fetching data across the
World Wide Web. In particular, the urlopen() function is similar to the
built-
in function open(), but accepts Universal Resource Locators (URLs) instead
of filenames.
or
urllib2 -- extensible library for opening URLs
The urllib2 module defines functions and classes which help in opening URLs
(mostly HTTP) in a complex world -- basic and digest authentication, re-
directions, cookies and more.
which all seem to match "something that would just let me connect
using an URL" pretty well.
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