Merge pull request #57 from patrick--/master

Added Python 2.7 simple HTTP post example

examples/python/http_post.py

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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+""" Simple http POST example using Python 2.7 and urllib and urllib2."""
+
+import urllib
+import urllib2
+
+public_hash     = 'KJJGv81n1pUyM4Kbg9by'
+private_hash    = 'vzzjDZR6RpfjdEzb1Ybj'
+base_url        = 'https://data.sparkfun.com'
+post_url        = base_url + '/input/' + public_hash
+
+
+headers = {
+	'Content-type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded',
+	'Phant-Private-Key': private_hash
+}
+
+
+def main():
+
+	data = {}
+	data['who'] = raw_input("Who are you? ")
+	data['where'] = raw_input("Where are you? ")
+	data['favorite_animal'] = raw_input("What's your favorite animal? ")
+	data['code'] = 'python'
+
+	data = urllib.urlencode(data)
+	post_request = urllib2.Request(post_url,data,headers)
+
+	try: 
+		post_response = urllib2.urlopen(post_request)
+		print post_response.read()
+
+	except URLError as e:
+		print "Error: ", e.reason
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+	main()