Help with cURL in Python

Question

I have to POST a request to a server. In the API documentation of the website there is this example that uses cURL in PHP:

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch         


        

Answer 1

curl is for Python too: http://pycurl.sourceforge.net/

The example could be translated into Python and pycurl like this:

import pycurl
c = pycurl.Curl()
c.setopt(pycurl.URL, "http://api.website.com")
c.setopt(pycurl.POST, 1)
c.setopt(pycurl.POSTFIELDS, "request=%s" % wrapper)
import StringIO
b = StringIO.StringIO()
c.setopt(pycurl.WRITEFUNCTION, b.write)
c.perform()
c.close()
data = b.getvalue()

Your Python code using urllib2 looks OK, it should be working. Probably there is an error in something other you did not mention in question; could you be please more specific?