python urllib2 post,使用python urllib / urllib2发出一个http POST请求来上传文件

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:

curl -F "file=@style.css" -F output=json http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator

How can I make the same request with python urllib/urllib2? The closest I got so far is the following:

with open("style.css", 'r') as f:

content = f.read()

post_data = {"file": content, "output": "json"}

request = urllib2.Request("http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator", \

data=urllib.urlencode(post_data))

response = urllib2.urlopen(request)

I got a HTTP Error 500 from the code above. But since my curl command succeeds, it must be something wrong with my python request?

I am quite new to this topic and please forgive me if the rookie question has very simple answers or mistakes. Thanks in advance for all your helps!

解决方案

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)