If you are making many requests, it is worth it to have a look atrequests.Session. This re-uses the connection to the server for subsequent requests (and also the headers and cookies).

I would also start separating your different responsibilities. One might be global constants (like your header and cookies), one a function that actually does the submission, one that creates the session and does each submission and then some code under aif __name__ == '__main__': guard that executes the code.

import requestsimport jsonCOOKIES = {<redacted>}HEADERS = {<redacted>}def post(session, url, data):    """Use session to post data to url.    Returns json object with execute result"""    response = session.post(url, data=data)    json_file = response.content.split('<ExecuteResult>')[1]    json_file = (json_file.split('</ExecuteResult>')[0]).replace("\\", "")    return json.loads(json_file)def post_submisssions(url, data, n):    """Create a session and post `n` submissions to `url` using `data`."""    session = requests.Session()    session.headers.update(HEADERS)    session.cookies = COOKIES    for _ in xrange(n):        json_response = post(session, url, data)        print "Created Id:", json_response['_entity']['Id']if __name__ == "__main__":    url = "<redacted>"    data = "<redacted>"    post_submisssions(url, data, input("How many submissions to create:"))

I also added some rudimentarydocstrings.

You could also change your parsing by usingBeautifulSoup:

from bs4 import BeautifulSoupdef post(session, url, data):    """Use session to post data to url.    Returns json object with execute result"""    response = session.post(url, data=data)    soup = BeautifulSoup(response.content, 'lxml')    return json.loads(soup.find('ExecuteResult'.lower()).replace("\\", ""))

I'll start with the obvious:

while submissions > 0:    ...    submissions -= 1

can be transformed into:

for _ in xrange(submissions):    ...

There are other changes that I think would make the code slightly better, albeit not necessarily more pythonic:

• submissions should probably be namedsubmission_count (thanks,Ludisposed!).
• You appear to be parsing HTML usingstring.split(). It might work OK now, but if you need to add more functionality in the future this approach will be very cumbersome. Try using a library instead (for example,Beautiful Soup).
• You're not using thepprint import, so you might as well remove that line.

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  \$\begingroup\$submissionCount does not adhere PEP8. Functions and variables should besnake_case\$\endgroup\$

  Ludisposed

  – Ludisposed

  2018-02-13 08:37:14 +00:00

  CommentedFeb 13, 2018 at 8:37
• \$\begingroup\$@Ludisposed You are right. Thanks! I edited the answer.\$\endgroup\$

  Cristian Lupascu

  – Cristian Lupascu

  2018-02-13 08:56:58 +00:00

  CommentedFeb 13, 2018 at 8:56

• python
• python-2.x
• json
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• python-requests