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Re: Python Requests: HTTP for Humans

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Post by adelevie » Mon, Oct 10, 2011, 7:33 PM UTC

old-gregg wrote: post #14

Absolutely my favourite recent development in the Python world. I won't be mistaken if I say that many of us have built half-arse versions of this on top of urllib(2) multiple times in the past. :-) The support for keep-alive is particularly welcome, huge kudos to the author. Question to users of other languages: do equivalents exist for PHP, Perl, C# or Java? Ruby folks rave about restclient, but is there anything e…

For Ruby, there's also Faraday https://github.com/technoweenie/faraday.

Re: Python Requests: HTTP for Humans

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Post by jrydberg » Mon, Oct 10, 2011, 7:41 PM UTC

It would be nice with something similar for Twisted.

Re: Python Requests: HTTP for Humans

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Post by efsavage » Mon, Oct 10, 2011, 7:47 PM UTC

I don't mean to badmouth Requests or Python in general, it certainly looks like an improvement, but can anyone enlighten me as to why an API that wraps an HTTP request with concise methods is #1 on HN, twice? This looks more like a good answer to SO question than "news".

This looks like all the other wrapper methods you spend 5 minutes doing, once, when you start a new codebase?

Re: Python Requests: HTTP for Humans

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Post by baq » Mon, Oct 10, 2011, 7:52 PM UTC

sneak wrote: post #23

d0vs wrote: post #4

Unfortunately, no Python 3 support

Why is that unfortunate? Why would anyone run python > 2.7?

why not?

Re: Python Requests: HTTP for Humans

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Post by mcav » Mon, Oct 10, 2011, 7:52 PM UTC

efsavage wrote: post #33

I don't mean to badmouth Requests or Python in general, it certainly looks like an improvement, but can anyone enlighten me as to why an API that wraps an HTTP request with concise methods is #1 on HN, twice? This looks more like a good answer to SO question than "news". This looks like all the other wrapper methods you spend 5 minutes doing, once, when you start a new codebase?

It's #1 because people vote it up; people vote it up because it interests them or they'd like to see more of it. That's the pattern for every link here.

We may agree or disagree with the consensus of the masses, but the masses make the front page.

Re: Python Requests: HTTP for Humans

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Post by draegtun » Mon, Oct 10, 2011, 8:01 PM UTC

old-gregg wrote: post #14

Absolutely my favourite recent development in the Python world. I won't be mistaken if I say that many of us have built half-arse versions of this on top of urllib(2) multiple times in the past. :-) The support for keep-alive is particularly welcome, huge kudos to the author. Question to users of other languages: do equivalents exist for PHP, Perl, C# or Java? Ruby folks rave about restclient, but is there anything e…

For Perl, I've mentioned this elsewhere here but Mojo::UserAgent looks quite neat. This time with Mojolicious url - http://mojolicio.us/perldoc/Mojo/UserAgent

Re: Python Requests: HTTP for Humans

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Post by cjus » Mon, Oct 10, 2011, 8:02 PM UTC

Given that there are a great deal of service APIs in the wild this is going to lower the barrier of entry for many less experienced developers looking to prototype their ideas.

Re: Python Requests: HTTP for Humans

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Post by briancurtin » Mon, Oct 10, 2011, 8:04 PM UTC

sneak wrote: post #23

d0vs wrote: post #4

Unfortunately, no Python 3 support

Why is that unfortunate? Why would anyone run python > 2.7?

Do you have a good reason why they shouldn't?

Apparently 113,798 people found a reason to download the 3.2.2 Windows installers (32 and 64 bit) from python.org through only the first 10 days of the month of October. http://www.python.org/webstats/usage_201110.html

(doesn't include mention of the 3.2 source tarball downloads, which are under 5,000, most likely since people get that from their distro anyway)

Re: Python Requests: HTTP for Humans

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Post by seanmcq » Mon, Oct 10, 2011, 8:20 PM UTC

I note that you call gevent.monkey.patch_all() in async.

I'm still fairly new to gevent and I'm curious if others consider this good style for a library?

Re: Python Requests: HTTP for Humans

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Post by tomp » Mon, Oct 10, 2011, 8:34 PM UTC

efsavage wrote: post #33

I don't mean to badmouth Requests or Python in general, it certainly looks like an improvement, but can anyone enlighten me as to why an API that wraps an HTTP request with concise methods is #1 on HN, twice? This looks more like a good answer to SO question than "news". This looks like all the other wrapper methods you spend 5 minutes doing, once, when you start a new codebase?

The design of this library reminds me of Apple's design... While a lot of Python is more like Google, or Microsoft - they just don't get it. (Admittedly, parts of Python are very well-designed, but I still see a lot of room for improvement...)