posting media to posterous using python and pycurl

posterous-media-post.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
#assumes youre posting to your default site 
#other wise you need to add site_id 
import pycurl 
username="[email protected]" 
password="urSuperSekritPassword" 
file="/home/syn/Desktop/charts/nvda-05032010.png" 
title="$nvda" 
tags="nvda, chart, doji, more, tags" 
body="blah blah blah this is the body of this post"

pconn = pycurl.Curl()

pconn.setopt(pconn.POST, 1) 
pconn.setopt(pconn.URL, "http://posterous.com/api/newpost")

pconn.setopt(pconn.USERPWD, username + ":" + password) 
pconn.setopt(pconn.HTTPPOST, [('title', title),('tags', tags),('body', 
body),("media", (pconn.FORM_FILE, file))])

#pconn.setopt(pconn.VERBOSE, 1) 
result = pconn.perform() 
pconn.close()