Extending the login script to update content

Now that we can login via a script, we can extend this script by adding code to update the website country data. The code used in this section is available at https://github.com/kjam/wswp/blob/master/code/chp6/edit.py and https://github.com/kjam/wswp/blob/master/code/chp6/login.py.

You may have already noticed an Edit link at the bottom of each country:

When logged in, clicking this link leads to another page where each property of a country can be edited:

We will make a script to increase the population ...

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