HTTP POST binary files using Python: concise non-pycurl examples?

Question

I\'m interested in writing a short python script which uploads a short binary file (.wav/.raw audio) via a POST request to a remote server.

I\'ve done this with pycurl,

Answer 1

How's urllib substantially more verbose? You build postdict basically the same way, except you start with

postdict = [ ('userfile', open(wavfile, 'rb').read()) ]

Once you vave postdict,

resp = urllib.urlopen(url, urllib.urlencode(postdict))

and then you get and save resp.read() and maybe unquote and try JSON-loading if needed. Seems like it would be actually shorter! So what am I missing...?