Does urllib2 support DELETE or PUT method? If yes provide with any example please. I need to use piston API.
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you can do it with httplib:
import httplib conn = httplib.HTTPConnection('www.foo.com') conn.request('PUT', '/myurl', body) resp = conn.getresponse() content = resp.read() also, check out this question. the accepted answer shows a way to add other methods to urllib2:
import urllib2 opener = urllib2.build_opener(urllib2.HTTPHandler) request = urllib2.Request('http://example.org', data='your_put_data') request.add_header('Content-Type', 'your/contenttype') request.get_method = lambda: 'PUT' url = opener.open(request) 
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Anders
It's you! Thanks for the examples using windows monitoring via wmi in Python, those were a great help for me :)
Pol
Nice.. httplib does not support authentication?
NeronLeVelu
authentication with urllib2 in case of:
request.add_header( 'Authorization', b'Basic ' + 'user:password'.encode('base64').replace('\n','') )Correction for Raj's answer:
import urllib2 class RequestWithMethod(urllib2.Request): def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs): self._method = kwargs.pop('method', None) urllib2.Request.__init__(self, *args, **kwargs) def get_method(self): return self._method if self._method else super(RequestWithMethod, self).get_method() 
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Charles Duffy
it would be shorter to use
self._method = kwargs.pop('method', None)
Bran Handley
The use of super gives me a TypeError. Instead I used
urllib2.Request.get_method(self)Found following code from https://gist.github.com/kehr/0c282b14bfa35155deff34d3d27f8307 and it worked for me (Python 2.7.5):
import urllib2 request = urllib2.Request(uri, data=data) request.get_method = lambda: 'DELETE' response = urllib2.urlopen(request) 
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Pol
So dirty-clean :/
You can subclass the urllib2.Request object and override the method when you instantiate the class.
import urllib2 class RequestWithMethod(urllib2.Request): def __init__(self, method, *args, **kwargs): self._method = method urllib2.Request.__init__(*args, **kwargs) def get_method(self): return self._method Courtesy of Benjamin Smedberg
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You can define a subclass of the Request object, and call it as follows:
import urllib2 class RequestWithMethod(urllib2.Request): def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs): self._method = kwargs.pop('method', None) urllib2.Request.__init__(self, *args, **kwargs) def get_method(self): return self._method if self._method else super(RequestWithMethod, self).get_method() def put_request(url, data): opener = urllib2.build_opener(urllib2.HTTPHandler) request = RequestWithMethod(url, method='PUT', data=data) return opener.open(request) def delete_request(url): opener = urllib2.build_opener(urllib2.HTTPHandler) request = RequestWithMethod(url, method='DELETE') return opener.open(request) (This is similar to the above answers, but shows usage.)
