Thanks Jon,

I managed to figure it out from those instructions. For anyone curious, the part that threw me off is that the syntax is slightly different in pycurl. You need a line like the following:

curl_client.setopt(pycurl.HTTPPOST, [("folderZip", (pycurl.FORM_FILE, "C:\\Path\to\file"))])

So this method appears to work now. I still have some concerns about whether or not this is the best approach for my use case. We will have a separate team of people setting up projects that they are using for sharing files and wiki pages. They will be managing user access rights, creating new users etc. On the same labkey deployment we would like to have data from the external service I mention in my first post "streaming" in to labkey. I am planning on having this happen nightly and will use the folder reload solution to facilitate this (unless a better and officially supported option emerges). So does this seems like an okay route to go down considering what we are trying to achieve? Any feedback would be much appreciated and I am happy to answer an questions if you need more details.

Thanks