new_contents: #!/usr/bin/env python
  
  import mechanize
  import os
  import glob
  
  verbose = False
  
  def upload_files(local_files, remote_dir, email, password):
      """ Upload a local file to Dropbox """
  
      # Fire up a browser using mechanize
      br = mechanize.Browser()
  
      br.set_handle_equiv(True)
  #    br.set_handle_gzip(True)
      br.set_handle_redirect(True)
      br.set_handle_referer(True)
  #    br.set_handle_robots(False)
  
  #    br.set_debug_http(True)
  #    br.set_debug_responses(True)
  #    br.set_debug_redirects(True)
  
      br.addheaders = [('User-agent', ' Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1) AppleWebKit/535.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/18.0.1018.0 Safari/535.19')]
  
      if verbose: print 'Opening login page...'
      # Browse to the login page
      r = br.open('https://www.dropbox.com/login')
      # just in case you need the html
      # html = r.read()
      # this shows a lot of info
  
      print r.info()
  
      if verbose: print br.title(), br.geturl()
  
      # Enter the username and password into the login form
      isLoginForm = lambda l: l.action == "https://www.dropbox.com/login" and l.method == "POST"
  
      try:
          if verbose: print 'selecting form...'
          br.select_form(predicate=isLoginForm)
      except:
          print("Unable to find login form.");
          exit(1);
  
      br['login_email'] = email
      br['login_password'] = password
  
      # Send the form
      if verbose: print 'submitting login form...'
      response = br.submit()
  
      # Add our file upload to the upload form once logged in
      isUploadForm = lambda u: u.action == "https://dl-web.dropbox.com/upload" and u.method == "POST"
  
      for local_file in local_files:
          try:
              br.select_form(predicate=isUploadForm)
          except:
              print("Unable to find upload form.");
              print("Make sure that your login information is correct.");
              exit(1);
  
          br.form.find_control("dest").readonly = False
          br.form.set_value(remote_dir, "dest")
  
          remote_file = os.path.basename(local_file)
  
          if (os.path.isfile(local_file)):
              br.form.add_file(open(local_file, "rb"), "", remote_file)
              # Submit the form with the file
              if verbose: print 'Uploading %s... to <<Dropbox>>:/%s/%s' % (local_file, remote_dir, remote_file),
              br.submit()
  
              if verbose: print 'Ok'
  
      print 'All completed Ok!'
  
  if __name__ == "__main__":
      import sys
      from getpass import getpass
  
      #email = raw_input("Enter Dropbox email address:")
      email = 'itkexamples@gmail.com'
  
      password = getpass("Enter Dropbox password:")
      # password = ''
  
      remote_dir = ''
  
      # allow multiple local file names as input args
      # first arg with 'dir:' prefix is parsed as remote path
      if len(sys.argv) > 1:
          if sys.argv[1].lower().startswith('dir:'):
              remote_dir = sys.argv[1][4:]
  
              if not remote_dir.startswith('/'):
                  remote_dir = '/' + remote_dir
  
              if verbose: print 'Using remote_dir=', remote_dir
              del sys.argv[1]
          local_files = sys.argv[1:]
  
      prepared_local_files = []
  
      for local_file in local_files:
  
          # explode globs
          if '*' in local_file:
              prepared_local_files += glob.glob(local_file)
          else:
              prepared_local_files.append(local_file)
  
  
      if not len(prepared_local_files):
          print 'No local files provided! Quitting.'
          sys.exit(2)
  
      upload_files(prepared_local_files, remote_dir, email, password)
  
subject: add python script to upload files to dropbox account