sending to mediawiki-api and bcc&#39;ing wikitech-l; apologies for sending this to the wrong list.<div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 1:03 PM, Eric Sun <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:esun@cs.stanford.edu">esun@cs.stanford.edu</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Hi,<div><br></div><div>I&#39;m trying to run action=query in Python with a POST request, but for some reason it only works with a GET.</div>
<div><br></div><div>This works fine (GET):</div><div><div>&gt;&gt;&gt; req = urllib2.Request(&#39;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&amp;titles=The_Matrix&amp;export&amp;format=txt" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&amp;titles=The_Matrix&amp;export&amp;format=txt</a>&#39;)</div>

<div>&gt;&gt;&gt; f = urllib2.urlopen(req, None, 300)</div><div>&gt;&gt;&gt; print f.read()</div></div><div>...full page output...</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>This doesn&#39;t work (POST):</div><div><div>&gt;&gt;&gt; req = urllib2.Request(&#39;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php</a>&#39;, &#39;action=query&amp;titles=The_Matrix&amp;export&amp;format=txt&#39;)</div>

<div>&gt;&gt;&gt; f = urllib2.urlopen(req, None, 300)</div><div>&gt;&gt;&gt; print f.read()</div><div>Array</div><div>(</div><div>    [query] =&gt; Array</div><div>        (</div><div>            [normalized] =&gt; Array</div>

<div>                (</div><div>                    [0] =&gt; Array</div><div>                        (</div><div>                            [from] =&gt; The_Matrix</div><div>                            [to] =&gt; The Matrix</div>

<div>                        )</div><div><br></div><div>                )</div><div><br></div><div>            [pages] =&gt; Array</div><div>                (</div><div>                    [30007] =&gt; Array</div><div>                        (</div>

<div>                            [pageid] =&gt; 30007</div><div>                            [ns] =&gt; 0</div><div>                            [title] =&gt; The Matrix</div><div>                        )</div><div><br></div>

<div>                )</div><div><br></div><div>        )</div><div><br></div><div>)</div><div><br></div></div><div>Does anyone know what I&#39;m doing wrong here?</div><div>Thanks in advance!</div>
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