Http post data retrieval using Python

[whitfieldd]

I am fairly new to the python language. I need to retieve data (XML file data) from http post using python. Are there any libraries that can point me in the right direction?

Thanks for your time.
Drew

[ghostdog74]

I am fairly new to the python language. I need to retieve data (XML file data) from http post using python. Are there any libraries that can point me in the right direction?

Thanks for your time.
Drew

if you want to retrieve a web page/data, you can use the modules urllib or urllib2. If you want to parse XML , you can check some of these tutorials out. There are lots more out there.