Mastering GUI Programming with Python

Testing the utility

If you have access to a server that accepts POST requests and file uploads, you can certainly use that to test your script; if not, you can also use the sample_http_server.py script included with the example code for this chapter. This script requires only Python 3 and the standard library and will echo back your POST request to you.

Launch the server script in a console window, then in a second console run your poster.py script and do the following:

• Enter http://localhost:8000 for the URL
• Add a few arbitrary key-value pairs to the table
• Select a file (probably a not-very-large text file, such as one of your Python scripts) to upload
• Click Submit Post

You should see a printout of your request in both the server console ...