Hi,

I'm trying to run action=query in Python with a POST request, but for some
reason it only works with a GET.

This works fine (GET):
>>> req = urllib2.Request('
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=The_Matrix&export&format=txt
')
>>> f = urllib2.urlopen(req, None, 300)
>>> print f.read()
...full page output...


This doesn't work (POST):
>>> req = urllib2.Request('http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php',
'action=query&titles=The_Matrix&export&format=txt')
>>> f = urllib2.urlopen(req, None, 300)
>>> print f.read()
Array
(
    [query] => Array
        (
            [normalized] => Array
                (
                    [0] => Array
                        (
                            [from] => The_Matrix
                            [to] => The Matrix
                        )

                )

            [pages] => Array
                (
                    [30007] => Array
                        (
                            [pageid] => 30007
                            [ns] => 0
                            [title] => The Matrix
                        )

                )

        )

)

Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong here?
Thanks in advance!
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