how to make post requests in python/django?

Question

as described in http://developers.facebook.com/docs/api#publishing i want to make a post request to update a users status .How do i make post requests in python / django?

Answer 1

Django has little to do with it, but urrlib2.urlopen is a simple enough way to POST. Just call it with a second parameter data (the first one is the URL you're addressing) that has the application/x-www-form-urlencoded formatted data you're posting (as the docs say, use urllib.urlencode to encode a mapping, typically a dictionary, in that way).

Answer 2

import urllib2

urllib2.urlopen('http://example.com', 'a=1&b=2')

will send a post request to http://example.com, with parameters a=1 and b=2