Python equivalent of Curl HTTP post

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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??

2 Answers

The modern day solution to this is much simpler with the requests module (tagline: HTTP for humans! :)

import requests

r = requests.post('http://httpbin.org/post', data = {'key':'value'}, auth=('user', 'passwd'))
r.text      # response as a string
r.content   # response as a byte string
            #     gzip and deflate transfer-encodings automatically decoded 
r.json()    # return python object from json! this is what you probably want!
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