Python equivalent of Curl HTTP post

Question

I am posting to Hudson server using curl from the command line using the following--

curl -X POST -d '<run><log encoding="hexBinary">4142430A</log><result>0</result><duration>2000</duration></run>' \
http://user:pass@myhost/hudson/job/_jobName_/postBuildResult

as shown in the hudson documentation..can I emulate the same thing using python..i don't want to use pyCurl or send this line through os.system()..is there ny way out using raw python??

Answer 1

import urllib2

req = urllib2.Request(url, data)
response = urllib2.urlopen(req)
result = response.read()

where data is the encoded data you want to POST.

You can encode a dict using urllib like this:

import urllib

values = { 'foo': 'bar' }
data = urllib.encode(values)

Answer 2

Try with urllib / urllib2 ?

• http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/articles/urllib2.shtml
• http://docs.python.org/library/urllib2.html