Make an http POST request to upload a file using Python urllib/urllib2

Question

I would like to make a POST request to upload a file to a web service (and get response) using Python. For example, I can do the following POST request with curl

Answer 1

After some digging around, it seems this post solved my problem. It turns out I need to have the multipart encoder setup properly.

from poster.encode import multipart_encode
from poster.streaminghttp import register_openers
import urllib2

register_openers()

with open("style.css", 'r') as f:
    datagen, headers = multipart_encode({"file": f})
    request = urllib2.Request("http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator", \
                              datagen, headers)
    response = urllib2.urlopen(request)