libsaria/web.py

This file contains a url class designed to make it easy to build up a
url and then place a python urllib2 request.

libsaria/web.py

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+# Bryan Schumaker (10/24/2010)
+
+import libsaria
+import urllib2
+import string
+
+HEADER = libsaria.__vers__
+
+vals = [ ('%','25'), (' ','20'), ('&','26'), ('<','3C'),  ('>','3E'),
+	 ('"','22'), ('#','23'), ('$','24'), ('\'','27'), ('+','2B'),
+	 (',','2C'), ('/','2F'), (':','3A'), ('[','5B'), (']','5D')]
+
+
+class Url:
+	def __init__(self, url):
+		self.url = url
+
+	def __setitem__(self, key, value):
+		value = escape(value)
+		self.url += "&" + key + "=" + value
+
+	def open(self):
+		#print self.url
+		req = urllib2.Request(self.url)
+		req.add_header('User-Agent', HEADER)
+		return urllib2.urlopen(req)
+
+
+def escape(string):
+	for l in vals:
+		string = string.replace(l[0], "%s%s" % ('%', l[1]))
+	return string
+