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How to maintain a login session during login using Python Script

I want to login to Ideone.com using a python script and then fetch stuff from my own account using subsequent requests using a python script. This is what I used to login to the site:

import requests
import urllib
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

url='http://ideone.com/account/login/'
body = {'username':'USERNAME', 'password':'PASSWORD'}

s = requests.Session()
loginPage = s.get(url)
soup = BeautifulSoup(loginPage.text)

r = s.post(soup.form['action'], data = body)
print r

This code successfully logs me into my ideone account. But if I make a subsequent call (using BeautifulSoup) to access my account details, it sends me the HTML login page again.

How can I save a session for a specific script so that it accepts subsequent calls? Thanks in advance and sorry if this was asked earlier.

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Here's how we can do it:



from requests import session
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

payload = {
    'action'   : 'login',
    'username' : 'USERNAME',
    'password' : 'PASSWORD'
}
login_url='http://ideone.com/account/login/'

with session() as c:
    c.post(login_url, data = payload)
    request = c.get('http://ideone.com/myrecent')
    print request.headers
    print request.text
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