Logging in to google using python?

Question

I am fairly new to web programing but for the sake of it, I am trying to login to google account not using standard code but as a python application, but it is impossible to

Answer 1

Although probably not exactly what you were looking for here I found some code from a similar post that did run from me.

import urllib2


def get_unread_msgs(user, passwd):
    auth_handler = urllib2.HTTPBasicAuthHandler()
    auth_handler.add_password(
        realm='New mail feed',
        uri='https://mail.google.com',
        user='%s@gmail.com' % user,
        passwd=passwd
    )
    opener = urllib2.build_opener(auth_handler)
    urllib2.install_opener(opener)
    feed = urllib2.urlopen('https://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom')
    return feed.read()

print get_unread_msgs("put-username-here","put-password-here")

reference:
How to auto log into gmail atom feed with Python?