Python - easy question

#!/usr/bin/env python

import urllib, urllib2

def update(link, username, password, email, signature):
	
	param1 = urllib.urlencode({'action': 'login', 'username': username, 'password': password}) 
	param2 = urllib.urlencode({'action': 'updateprofile', 'email': email, 'emailconfirm': email, 'signature': signature}) 
 
	cookie = urllib.urlopen(link, param1).info()['Set-Cookie'] 
	cookie = [c for c in cookie.split() if c.endswith(';')][::2]
 
	urllib.urlopen(urllib2.Request(link, param2, {'Cookie': ''.join(cookie)}))
	
update('http://forums.devshed.com/member.php', 'netytan', 'passwd', 'netytan@somewhere.com', 'www.python.org')

import urllib
class myopener(urllib.FancyURLopener):
    def prompt_user_passwd(self,host,realm):
        return ("username","password")
    
sess = myopener()

f = sess.open("http://somewhere/index.html")
page = f.read()