Discussion from the two month old submission: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2882301
Python Requests: HTTP for Humans
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Re: Python Requests: HTTP for Humans
#22Absolutely 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 httparty, https://github.com/jnunemaker/httparty , curb, and a couple of others that escape me right now.
Here's the new one I'm working on:
https://github.com/tarcieri/http
httparty does a few of the same tricks, but I still find its API a bit obtrusive. At least it automatically parses JSON! (my library does this too, if an appropriate library is loaded)
In addition to a humane interface, it will soon be backed by a Ragel-generated HTTP parser:
Re: Python Requests: HTTP for Humans
#23Unfortunately, no Python 3 support
Why is that unfortunate? Why would anyone run python > 2.7?
Re: Python Requests: HTTP for Humans
#24Absolutely 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…
C# / .NET had System.Net.WebRequest since 1.1. It's similar in principle to Requests.
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#25What is the timeline for v0.7? Desperately need the asynchronous stuff!
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#26What is the timeline for v0.7? Desperately need the asynchronous stuff!
As soon as I can push it out. Aiming for Friday (if not sooner)!
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#27What's with the "for human beings" phrase? Is that a way of saying the software is easy?
It generally means it has an API which lends itself to writing readable, intuitive code.
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#28What's with the "for human beings" phrase? Is that a way of saying the software is easy?
Some APIs are appropriate for programmers to target. Others are more appropriate for compilers or higher-abstraction libraries to target.
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#29Re: Python Requests: HTTP for Humans
#30Looks like Python got something similar to Perl's LWP https://metacpan.org/module/LWP
I think LWP is more equivalent to Python's urllib2 (ie. both big beasts!). So this i believe is closer to what LWP::UserAgent (https://metacpan.org/module/LWP::UserAgent) does.
Also check out Mojo::UserAgent (https://metacpan.org/module/Mojo::UserAgent) for a nice(er) alternative. And don't forget that Perl now comes a nice lightweight alternative as standard: https://metacpan.org/module/HTTP::Tiny