Transferring dictionary via post request

Question

I am using Python and try to send a dictionary (that contains dynamic data) via HTTP-Post request to the server. What is the most efficient way to implement it?

Answer 1

Use urllib.urlencode to encode the dictionary as a POST.

import urllib
import urllib2

mydict = {'key1': 'value1', 'key2': 'value2'}
encoded_dict = urllib.urlencode(mydict)

request = urllib2.Request(myurl, encoded_dict)
# now make the request
response = request.urlopen().read()