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gistfile1.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
import httplib, urllib

params = urllib.urlencode( {
    'characterID': 260629291,
    'userid': 435411,
    'apikey': '70E6A6C6FF04D9BBC04E4A08E8082FE2E8BEDD84B6A4CD4A9AE1C72E0B22CD0',
    } )

headers = { "Content-type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded" }

conn = httplib.HTTPConnection("api.eve-online.com")
conn.request("POST", "/char/AccountBalance.xml.aspx", params, headers)

response = conn.getresponse()

print response.status, response.reason

data = response.read()

print data

conn.close