Parameter Urlopen Python

from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
import urllib

post_params = {
              'param1' : 'val1',
              'param2' : 'val2',
              'param3' : 'val3'
              }
post_args = urllib.urlencode(post_params)

url = 'http://www.sample.com/myASP.asp'
fp = urllib.urlopen(url, post_args)
soup = BeautifulSoup(fp)
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