Simple Boxcar.io notifier strategy for goxtool

_boxcar.py

import urllib.request, urllib.error, urllib.parse
import platform
import sys
import configparser
import os
from optparse import OptionParser
from time import time

def notify(username, password, sender, message):
    url = 'https://boxcar.io/notifications'
    values = {
            'notification[from_screen_name]' : sender,
            'notification[message]' : message,
            'notification[from_remote_service_id]' : int(time()*100)
            }

    passman = urllib.request.HTTPPasswordMgrWithDefaultRealm()
    passman.add_password(None, url, username, password)
    authhandler = urllib.request.HTTPBasicAuthHandler(passman)
    opener = urllib.request.build_opener(authhandler)
    urllib.request.install_opener(opener)

    data = urllib.parse.urlencode( values )
    try:
        response = urllib.request.urlopen(url, data.encode('utf8'))
    except IOError as e:
        if (hasattr(e, 'reason')):
            print('Error submitting http request:', e.reason)
            return 1
        if (hasattr(e, 'code')):
            print('Error submitting http request:', e.code)
            return 1
    except Exception as e:
        print('Unhandled error caught', e.str())
        return 1
    return 0