Python and Web applications

开发者_JAVA百科I want to start writing python to support some of my web applications. Mainly i'm trying to fetch pages, send POST data to urls and some string manipulation.

I understand that there are some disadvantages with the urllib in the new versions.

Can anyone please tell me which release is best for my needs?

Thanks

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Step 1. Use urllib2 to fetch pages. Save them in flat files

http://docs.python.org/library/urllib2.html

Step 2. Use a WSGI-based server like werkzeug to serve those pages.

http://docs.python.org/library/wsgiref.html

http://werkzeug.pocoo.org/

When you get that working, plug it into a proper web server (like Apache) with mod_wsgi.

http://code.google.com/p/modwsgi/

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I don't know your needs ... but did you try twill. It can fetch pages, fill forms, and whatever you need. It contains a "scripting languages" and can be embedded in your python application.

http://twill.idyll.org/