Issue 545480: Examples for urllib2 (original) (raw)

This issue has been migrated to GitHub: https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/36459

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Created on 2002-04-18 04:13 by jafo, last changed 2022-04-10 16:05 by admin. This issue is now closed.

Messages (5)
msg39638 - (view)	Author: Sean Reifschneider (jafo) *	Date: 2002-04-18 04:13
An associate who's learning Python recently complained about a lack of examples for urllib2. As a starting point, I'd like to submit the following: This example gets the python.org main page and displays the first 100 bytes of it: >>> import urllib2 >>> url = urllib2.urlopen('http://www.python.org/') >>> print url.read()[:100] <!-- THIS PAGE IS AUTOMATICAL >>> Here we are sending a data-stream to the stdin of a CGI and reading the data it returns to us: >>> import urllib2 >>> req = urllib2.Request(url = 'https://localhost/cgi-bin/test.cgi', ... data = 'This data is passed to stdin of the CGI') >>> url = urllib2.urlopen(req) >>> print url.read() Got Data: "This data is passed to stdin of the CGI" >>> The code for the sample CGI used in the above example is: #!/usr/bin/env python import sys data = sys.stdin.read() print 'Content-type: text-plain\n\nGot Data: "%s"' % data
msg39639 - (view)	Author: Chris Withers (fresh)	Date: 2002-11-19 16:02
Logged In: YES user_id=24723 The examples for urllib2 are still really lacking :-( I want to open an http basic auth protected URL and check whether or not I get a 404 back. I have no idea hwo to do that given the current documentation...
msg39640 - (view)	Author: Fred Drake (fdrake)	Date: 2003-04-25 15:42
Logged In: YES user_id=3066 I've committed the examples from the patch in a slightly modified form to Doc/lib/liburllib2.tex revisions 1.8 and 1.6.8.2. Additional examples would be really helpful; especially demonstrating the authentication support, as noted in the comment from "fresh".
msg39641 - (view)	Author: John J Lee (jjlee)	Date: 2003-08-31 19:49
Logged In: YES user_id=261020 Please see 798244 -- I've uploaded some more examples there.
msg39642 - (view)	Author: Tim Peters (tim.peters) *	Date: 2004-03-21 19:34
Logged In: YES user_id=31435 Since Fred said he checked in the examples here last year, and there is no other actionable item in this patch report, closing it now.