convert cURL command line into python script

Question

I'm trying to convert these sequence of CURL commands into python script. Can someone assist me on this please? There should be function/method for command 3 and 4 below which will accept the parameter as "data" to pass to command 3 below and note to process as query argument in command 4 below(eg. of node in command 4 below: cid=29-0&pid=12&gid=29-0&type=1")

curl --cookie-jar /mydir/cookies.tmp -o dev/null "http://xyz:8080/main/main.faces"
curl --cookie /mydir/cookies.tmp --location --cookie-jar /mydir/cookies.tmp --data "[email protected]&j_password=test" -o /dev/null "http://xyz.com:8080/main/j_sec_check"
curl --cookie /mydir/cookies.tmp --data "cmd=u&rid=5&cid=29-0&pid=12&gid=29-0&type=1&blablblablablablablablblablablablablablblablablablablablblablablabla" "http://xyz.com:8080/main/rest/testrestXML"
curl --cookie /mydir/cookies.tmp "http://xyz.com:8080/main/rest/process?cid=29-0&pid=12&gid=29-0&type=1"

• doneright: I usually do, but if I have missed any then I'm sorry. I will make sure moving forward

Answer 1

Well, without doing it all for you, start with urllib2. The relevant function is urllib2.urlopen("http://www.example.com"). If you pass a second parameter, it is treated as the data in a POST request. To do a GET request, just add url encoded parameters to the URL. urllib (without the 2) has a urlencode function if you need it.

If you need to use cookies, use cookielib. The examples for it show you how.

• doneright: Thank you Thomas for your tip. It helped to increase my knowledge base. What I did was constructed cmd and used os.system(cmd) to achieve that task and wrapped in python function.
• Thomas K: @doneright: You're welcome. Calling system commands isn't ideal (not very portable, etc.), but if it only needs to work on one computer, fair enough.