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I need to generate multipart/form-data (see here) messages from Python. Never mind why. I dug around in the documentation for httplib, urllib, and urllib2, but it seems this is not currently supported (it’s Issue 3244). I didn’t like the code I found on the web to do it, because I needed to set additional headers on each piece. So… I wrote something. Here it is. If it’s useful to you, great! If you find bugs in it, please let me know. I think this is pretty easy to use.
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I’ve been doing some nasty database work with Python and MySQL.  Specifically, I’ve got long programs that run eight to ten hours, and sometimes I need to kill them and restart them later.

So… I wanted a way to trap CTRL+C and clean up.  That is, I wanted to have transactions without actually having to use transactions.  I’m funny that way.  (In other news, I’m probably moving to PostgreSQL at some point.)

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