Python Requests: HTTP for Humans

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Post by frzn » Mon, Oct 10, 2011, 5:06 PM UTC

Requests is an ISC Licensed HTTP library, written in Python, for human beings.

Requests allow you to send HEAD, GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, and DELETE HTTP requests. You can add headers, form data, multipart files, and parameters with simple Python dictionaries, and access the response data in the same way. It’s powered by urllib2, but it does all the hard work and crazy hacks for you.

Python Requests: HTTP for Humans
python-requests.org

Re: Python Requests: HTTP for Humans

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Post by leonderijke » Mon, Oct 10, 2011, 5:39 PM UTC

I'm using it in a project I'm working on. It's really easy to use!

Re: Python Requests: HTTP for Humans

#3

Post by pchivers » Mon, Oct 10, 2011, 5:47 PM UTC

Link to previous discussion on HN:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2882301

Re: Python Requests: HTTP for Humans

#4

Post by d0vs » Mon, Oct 10, 2011, 5:53 PM UTC

Unfortunately, no Python 3 support

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Post by kenneth_reitz » Mon, Oct 10, 2011, 5:56 PM UTC

d0vs wrote: post #4

Unfortunately, no Python 3 support

I can assure you that it's directly around the corner :)

Re: Python Requests: HTTP for Humans

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Post by megaman821 » Mon, Oct 10, 2011, 6:07 PM UTC

This looks so nice. Is there any upcoming support for HTTP caching? I know it is not the easiest thing to do because you will probably need to make several cache backends (file, db, memcached, redis, etc.) to keep everyone happy.

Also I couldn't tell if there is keep-alive support, is there?

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Post by kenneth_reitz » Mon, Oct 10, 2011, 6:10 PM UTC

megaman821 wrote: post #6

This looks so nice. Is there any upcoming support for HTTP caching? I know it is not the easiest thing to do because you will probably need to make several cache backends (file, db, memcached, redis, etc.) to keep everyone happy. Also I couldn't tell if there is keep-alive support, is there?

Keep-alive is 100% supported in the upcoming v0.7.0 release, along with async i/o :)

Caching: I think that will be best be served by a hook/helper module, but we'll see.

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Post by dreamdu5t » Mon, Oct 10, 2011, 6:15 PM UTC

What's with the "for human beings" phrase? Is that a way of saying the software is easy?

Re: Python Requests: HTTP for Humans

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Post by samps » Mon, Oct 10, 2011, 6:17 PM UTC

kenneth_reitz wrote: post #7

megaman821 wrote: post #6

This looks so nice. Is there any upcoming support for HTTP caching? I know it is not the easiest thing to do because you will probably need to make several cache backends (file, db, memcached, redis, etc.) to keep everyone happy. Also I couldn't tell if there is keep-alive support, is there?

Keep-alive is 100% supported in the upcoming v0.7.0 release, along with async i/o :) Caching: I think that will be best be served by a hook/helper module, but we'll see.

Cool! Is there anything I can look at to see how async I/O will work? Does all the async support depend on gevent monkey patching (as requests/async.py would suggest)?

Re: Python Requests: HTTP for Humans

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Post by bascule » Mon, Oct 10, 2011, 6:18 PM UTC

I just started working on a similar library for Ruby:

https://github.com/tarcieri/http