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author | Matt A. Tobin <mattatobin@localhost.localdomain> | 2018-02-02 04:16:08 -0500 |
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diff --git a/python/requests/README.rst b/python/requests/README.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..99d30e724 --- /dev/null +++ b/python/requests/README.rst @@ -0,0 +1,86 @@ +Requests: HTTP for Humans +========================= + +.. image:: https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/requests.svg + :target: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/requests + +.. image:: https://img.shields.io/pypi/dm/requests.svg + :target: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/requests + + + + +Requests is an Apache2 Licensed HTTP library, written in Python, for human +beings. + +Most existing Python modules for sending HTTP requests are extremely +verbose and cumbersome. Python's builtin urllib2 module provides most of +the HTTP capabilities you should need, but the api is thoroughly broken. +It requires an enormous amount of work (even method overrides) to +perform the simplest of tasks. + +Things shouldn't be this way. Not in Python. + +.. code-block:: python + + >>> r = requests.get('https://api.github.com', auth=('user', 'pass')) + >>> r.status_code + 204 + >>> r.headers['content-type'] + 'application/json' + >>> r.text + ... + +See `the same code, without Requests <https://gist.github.com/973705>`_. + +Requests allow you to send HTTP/1.1 requests. You can add headers, form data, +multipart files, and parameters with simple Python dictionaries, and access the +response data in the same way. It's powered by httplib and `urllib3 +<https://github.com/shazow/urllib3>`_, but it does all the hard work and crazy +hacks for you. + + +Features +-------- + +- International Domains and URLs +- Keep-Alive & Connection Pooling +- Sessions with Cookie Persistence +- Browser-style SSL Verification +- Basic/Digest Authentication +- Elegant Key/Value Cookies +- Automatic Decompression +- Unicode Response Bodies +- Multipart File Uploads +- Connection Timeouts +- Thread-safety +- HTTP(S) proxy support + + +Installation +------------ + +To install Requests, simply: + +.. code-block:: bash + + $ pip install requests + + +Documentation +------------- + +Documentation is available at http://docs.python-requests.org/. + + +Contribute +---------- + +#. Check for open issues or open a fresh issue to start a discussion around a feature idea or a bug. There is a `Contributor Friendly`_ tag for issues that should be ideal for people who are not very familiar with the codebase yet. +#. Fork `the repository`_ on GitHub to start making your changes to the **master** branch (or branch off of it). +#. Write a test which shows that the bug was fixed or that the feature works as expected. +#. Send a pull request and bug the maintainer until it gets merged and published. :) Make sure to add yourself to AUTHORS_. + +.. _`the repository`: http://github.com/kennethreitz/requests +.. _AUTHORS: https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests/blob/master/AUTHORS.rst +.. _Contributor Friendly: https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests/issues?direction=desc&labels=Contributor+Friendly&page=1&sort=updated&state=open |