Requests v2.0 Python module released

http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/community/updates/#release-history

by TheSwordsman • 13 years ago

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Gnewt• 13 years ago

Cool! Requests has got to be my favorite Python library. There are so many times I have replaced ~80 lines of urllib2 ugliness with 2-5 lines of requests. Simple, Pythonic, pretty...

sahaskatta• 13 years ago

Same here, cuts having to write so much fugly code. Almost wish it was inclusive with Python itself since I primarily use the language for web dev.

TheSwordsman4• 13 years ago

I don't, this would require fundamental changes to the module (such as how it handles verifying SSL certificates) and it would cause API improvements to stagnate.

It's painless to install, so I prefer it as a module I can just add to all of my routines.

I feel like stdlib is where cool Python modules go to die...

viraptor• 13 years ago

There's a great improvement for the corporate environments too. Finally the https-over-http/connect is supported.

chris_mahan• 13 years ago

What? Awesome! Been waiting for this for a looong time!

gmjosack2• 13 years ago

This has prevented me from using the official Jira python module. I literally just launched something hacky using urllib2 yesterday because of this... :(

rdegges• 13 years ago

Congrats, Kenneth!

Requests is one of the best Python modules ever written, and I use it (literally) every day. Good stuff, man!

Siecje• 13 years ago

Do modules like this ever make it into the standard library?

gmjosack2• 13 years ago

I find it better that they stay out of the stdlib. Having to upgrade all of python just to get a new feature like CONNECT support would be unfortunate.

wahnfrieden• 13 years ago

It also adds enormous friction to making changes/releasing updates in the first place.

nerfhammer• 13 years ago

the other side of this coin is that I've had things break between releases

and many/most people will have urllib{,2,3} inflicted on them by default not knowing otherwise

quaunaut• 13 years ago

Good work. I'm not in Python anymore, but every other language I'm in, I wish I had Requests.

st3fan• 13 years ago

Does this finally include SNI support?

huxley• 13 years ago

The underlying issue is with Python 2.x (which is feature frozen and won't get SNI support) but apparently Requests can support SNI if you install PyOpenSSL, ndg-httpsclien and pyasn1

ref: https://twitter.com/mitsuhiko/status/363564610492063744

cmyr• 13 years ago

I first used requests to earlier this year to handle some obscure calls to the twitter API, and was absolutely astonished by how much work it saved me. Really amazing work.

erydo• 13 years ago

Cool! I did the `Session.prepare_request` change [1] and found the project maintainers extremely helpful and patient in discussing the best way to go about it as I stumbled around. It's a good codebase and an awesome library.

[1] https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests/pull/1507

Lukasa• 13 years ago

Once again, thanks so much for that. Genuinely great work and we're so glad to have it.

tyilo• 13 years ago

Have they added support for SOCKS proxies yet?

I'm currently using `import requesocks as requests`.

aviv• 13 years ago

I find it much easier to route socks requests via Polipo (http://www.pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr/~jch/software/polipo/)

Just run `polipo socksParentProxy=<host>:<port>` and then use it as a regular http proxy with requests (default port is 8123).

est• 13 years ago

Which is good enough for singlular usage, it's crazy use it on servers.

meowface• 13 years ago

It's being worked on.

tel• 13 years ago

This is probably the single thing I miss the most when not using Python. It's a really great example of writing a library that lets the user get right to the semantics they want while simplifying a bunch of mostly unimportant details.

cowmix• 13 years ago

What I don't understand is how this doesn't show up on top of Google's search results when you type "python rest client".

I bet TONS of time is wasted because it is harder to find this module than it should be.

TheSwordsman4• 13 years ago

Maybe we should learn Kenneth some SEO-fu. :p

mh-• 13 years ago

probably because the word 'rest' doesn't appear on http://docs.python-requests.org/ ?

the12• 13 years ago

requests is an HTTP library. REST is an architectural style.

Kudos2• 13 years ago

Requests is a HTTP verb oriented HTTP client, REST is a HTTP verb oriented architecture. They are very compatible.

StavrosK• 13 years ago

Something like hammock (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/hammock/) would probably be more appropriate there.

Requests v2.0 Python module released

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