pass session cookies in http header with python urllib2?

Question

I\'m trying to write a simple script to log into Wikipedia and perform some actions on my user page, using the Mediawiki api. However, I never seem to get past the first log

Answer 1

The latest version of requests has support for sessions (as well as being really simple to use and generally great):

with requests.session() as s: 
    s.post(url, data=user_data)
    r = s.get(url_2)