DZone
Web Dev Zone
Thanks for visiting DZone today,
Edit Profile
  • Manage Email Subscriptions
  • How to Post to DZone
  • Article Submission Guidelines
Sign Out View Profile
  • Post an Article
  • Manage My Drafts
Over 2 million developers have joined DZone.
Log In / Join
  • Refcardz
  • Trend Reports
  • Webinars
  • Zones
  • |
    • Agile
    • AI
    • Big Data
    • Cloud
    • Database
    • DevOps
    • Integration
    • IoT
    • Java
    • Microservices
    • Open Source
    • Performance
    • Security
    • Web Dev
DZone > Web Dev Zone > Requests: A Painless HTTP Client for Python

Requests: A Painless HTTP Client for Python

Mike Dirolf user avatar by
Mike Dirolf
·
Nov. 21, 11 · Web Dev Zone · Interview
Like (0)
Save
Tweet
4.81K Views

Join the DZone community and get the full member experience.

Join For Free

I’ve always thought that making HTTP requests in Python was a lot harder than it should’ve been. Alone, the confusion between urllib and urllib2 is enough to drive me a little crazy. On top of that, neither library has that API je ne sais quoi, the “just works” feeling.

I think I’m way behind, here, but just yesterday I came across Requests, a library by Kenneth Reitz. Here’s the first example from the documentation:

>>> r = requests.get('https://api.github.com', auth=('user', 'pass'))
>>> r.status_code
204
>>> r.headers['content-type']
'application/json'

This looks much better than what I’m used to. I think we’ll start using Requests when we need an HTTP client for Fiesta. Does anybody have any experience (good or bad) with it? Is there some other library we should be taking a look at as well, once we’ve committed to moving on from the stdlib?

Mike


source: http://blog.fiesta.cc/post/11139748502/requests-a-painless-http-client-for-python

Requests Python (language)

Opinions expressed by DZone contributors are their own.

Popular on DZone

  • Federated Schema Design
  • 9 Strategies to Improve Your Software Development Process
  • How the TypeScript ReturnType Works
  • Create a Self-Service Customer Support Chatbot Without Code

Comments

Web Dev Partner Resources

X

ABOUT US

  • About DZone
  • Send feedback
  • Careers
  • Sitemap

ADVERTISE

  • Advertise with DZone

CONTRIBUTE ON DZONE

  • Article Submission Guidelines
  • MVB Program
  • Become a Contributor
  • Visit the Writers' Zone

LEGAL

  • Terms of Service
  • Privacy Policy

CONTACT US

  • 600 Park Offices Drive
  • Suite 300
  • Durham, NC 27709
  • support@dzone.com
  • +1 (919) 678-0300

Let's be friends:

DZone.com is powered by 

AnswerHub logo