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Requests v0.4.0 Released
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:date: 2011-05-15 22:35
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:category: python
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:featured: True
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Requests v0.4.0 was released late last night!
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If you're unfamiliar with **Requests**, it is an HTTP Module for Python that
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strives to keep things as simple as possible. `Learn more
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<http://python-requests.org>`_.
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It is being used internally at Twitter, Inc and The Library of Congress.
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If your company (or project) is using Requests internally, send me an email!
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Since the initial release, 3 months ago, Requests quickly became my most popular
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Python project. It's approaching
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`200 Watchers <https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests/watchers>`_
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`on GitHub <https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests>`_, and has a number
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of happy repetitive users:
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**Daniel Greenfeld**
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Nuked a 1200 LOC spaghetti code library with 10 lines of code thanks to @kennethreitz’s request library. Today has been AWESOME!
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**Kenny Meyers**
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Python HTTP: When in doubt, or when not in doubt, use Requests. Beautiful, simple, Pythonic.
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**Rich Leland**
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Requests is awesome. That is all.
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**Steve Pike**
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I can never remember how to do it the regular way. import requests; requests.get() is just so easy!
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Community Update
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**Requests** now has it's own documentation website: `python-requests.org <http://python-requests.org>`_, hosted by the excellent `Read the Docs <http://readthedocs.org/>`_ project. The User and API docs are still a work in progress.
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I decided to change the project tagline from *"Most Python HTTP Modules suck.
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This one doesn't."* to *"Python HTTP Requests for Humans."*. While I did enjoy
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the bit of personality that the previous tagline brought to the project,
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there's no need for the passive agression. Only Positivity going forward.
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New Features
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Version 0.4.0 features the new ``Response.history`` attribute, which contains a
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list of requests leading up to the response. If you ask for a URL, and it
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bounces off of 3x 301 Redirects, those 3 requests will reside in the
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``Response.history`` atrribute.
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Requests now features a wonderful Case-insensitive Header Dictionary,
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so you can handle unpredictable response headers easily. One server will
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respond with ``content-encoding``, while another will respond with
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``Content-Encoding``. ``r.header['content-encoding']`` will return the proper
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value in both scenarios.
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Requests now transparently supports Unicode URLs (e.g. ``'http://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/위키백과:대문'``).
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We also automatically decompresses GZip'd Encoded responses, without the need
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to send up an ``Accept-encoding`` header.
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Urllib2 has a major recursion issue when HTTP BASIC Authentication is
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required, but bad credentials were provided. Requests now handles this
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scenario properly.
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Links
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-----
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GitHub:
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https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests
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PyPi:
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http://pypi.python.org/pypi/requests
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PyPi Mirror:
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http://pip.kreitz.co/pypi/requests/0.4.0/
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Continuous Integration:
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http://ci.kennethreitz.com/job/tablib-tests/
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[`Source on GitHub <http://github.com/kennethreitz/requests>`_]
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[`PyPi Listing <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/requests>`_]
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