Question

In the save() method on a model, I need to execute a request for an external URL, e.g.

def save(self):
    curl http://foo.dyndns.com/blah

I don’t need it to return or handle any received data – just need to make the request (an Arudino board will receive and react to the request).

I’d prefer not to drop into os.system() to execute a curl statement – I’m thinking there must be some way to do this natively. Only I don’t know how (Google results not helping much here).

Thanks for suggestions.

Answer 1

Open a request with urllib2.urlopen, but don’t .read from the handler