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I'm mainly a PHP programmer however I've been dabbling in Python and absolutely love how simple everything is. I wrote a email filter to catch certain mail in about 30 minutes and now I have this new script which logs me into my campus' BlueSocket WIFI automatically.... Basically I was just wondering are there any ways I could have cut this down a bit more (maybe how I dealt with the gateway handling?)

Code:

#!/usr/bin/python
import urllib2, urllib, socket
username = 'USERNAME'
password = 'PASWORD'
ip = socket.gethostbyname(socket.gethostname())
gateway = ip.split('.')
gateway[3]='1'
gatewayip = gateway[0:4]
gate_ip = ".".join(gatewayip)
gatesip = "http://",gate_ip,"/login.pl"
g = "".join(gatesip)
login = urllib.urlencode({'customlogin': 1, '_FORM_SUBMIT': 1, 'which_form': 'reg', 'destination': '', 'error': '', 'source': '128.186.232.83','SUBMIT': 'Log In', 'bs_name': username, 'bs_password': password});
e = urllib2.urlopen(g, login)
print "Tried...",g
print "Logged in!"

Thanks in advance.

PS: How come there isn't a Python forum

[Psybadek]

Well I would say there isn't a Python forum because I dont know how many of the regulars know Python, plus there probably isn't a lot of Python topics to have one.

[furthersorion]

I think a python forum would be a good idea if there are indeed enough people interested.

[UnrealEd]

Here's what you can do to "improve" (don't really know if it's any improvement at all) for the gateway defining:

Code:

#!/usr/bin/python
import urllib2, urllib, socket
username = 'USERNAME'
password = 'PASWORD'
ip = socket.gethostbyname(socket.gethostname())
ip = ip.rpartition ('.')[0]
login = urllib.urlencode({'customlogin': 1, '_FORM_SUBMIT': 1, 'which_form': 'reg', 'destination': '', 'error': '', 'source': '128.186.232.83','SUBMIT': 'Log In', 'bs_name': username, 'bs_password': password});
e = urllib2.urlopen("http://%s.1/login.pl" % ip, login)
print "Tried... http://%s.1/login.pl" % ip
print "Logged in!"

It saves you the splitting, and setting the last byte of the ip address (notice how I added the '1' within the url string itself).

We used to have a Python forum here, but there's was so little activity on it that we decided to close it down.