Re: Python does not allow a variable named "pass"

2010-04-11 Thread BJ Swope
urllib.urlencode({'pass' : 'foo'}) > 'pass=foo' > > > --- Giampaolo > http://code.google.com/p/pyftpdlib > http://code.google.com/p/psutil > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > Thank you! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python does not allow a variable named "pass"

2010-04-11 Thread Xavier Ho
On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 11:40 PM, BJ Swope wrote: > Other than asking the website owner to change the name of the field > how can I go about passing that field in the form post? > How about: >>> urllib.urlencode({'pass' : 'foo'}) And so on? What is your problem in this context? Cheers, Xav --

Re: Python does not allow a variable named "pass"

2010-04-11 Thread Duncan Booth
BJ Swope wrote: > Other than asking the website owner to change the name of the field > how can I go about passing that field in the form post? > > dev:~$ python > Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Jan 24 2010, 14:53:14) > [GCC 4.3.2] on linux2 > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more

Re: Python does not allow a variable named "pass"

2010-04-11 Thread Giampaolo Rodola'
On 11 Apr, 15:40, BJ Swope wrote: > I am trying to automate access to a web page that has forms based > authentication.  The password field is named "pass" which python is > not going to like. > > Other than asking the website owner to change the name of the field > how can I go about passing that

Python does not allow a variable named "pass"

2010-04-11 Thread BJ Swope
I am trying to automate access to a web page that has forms based authentication. The password field is named "pass" which python is not going to like. Other than asking the website owner to change the name of the field how can I go about passing that field in the form post? dev:~$ python Python