Python minifier using Reducisaurus

minifier.py

import httplib, urllib

origin = 'file.js'
destination = 'file.min.js'

params = urllib.urlencode({'file1': open(origin).read()})
headers = {'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'}
conn = httplib.HTTPConnection('reducisaurus.appspot.com')
conn.request('POST', '/js', params, headers)
response = conn.getresponse()
data = response.read()
conn.close()

f = open(destination, 'w')
f.write(data)
f.close()

print 'Minified version saved as %s.' % destination