Trying to post multipart form data in python, won't post

Question

I\'m fairly new to python, so I apologize in advance if this is something simple I\'m missing. I\'m trying to post data to a multipart form in python. The script runs, but i

Answer 1

import urllib, urllib2
from poster.encode import multipart_encode
from poster.streaminghttp import register_openers

def queXF():
    register_openers()
    url = "http://lilix2/trunk/admin/new.php"
    values = {'form':open('test.pdf'),
          'bandingxml':open('banding.xml'),
          'desc':'description'}
    data, headers = multipart_encode(values)
    headers['User-Agent'] = 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT)'
    request = urllib2.Request(url, data, headers)
    request.unverifiable = True
    response = urllib2.urlopen(request)
    the_page = response.read()

Adding headers['User-Agent'] and request.unverifiable = True seems to have fixed it.

Answer 2

Try using the requests library. Docs on posting multipart file are here: http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/user/quickstart/#post-a-multipart-encoded-file