rely on requests

gistapi/core.py

@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ u'Great Stuff.'
 import cStringIO
 import os.path
 
-import urllib2
+import requests
 from datetime import datetime
 
 try:
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ class Gist(object):
         else:
             # Fetch Gist metadata
             _meta_url = GIST_JSON % self.id
-            _meta = json.load(urllib2.urlopen(_meta_url))['gists'][0]
+            _meta = json.loads(requests.get(_meta_url).content)['gists'][0]
 
         for key, value in _meta.iteritems():
 

setup.py

@@ -9,36 +9,39 @@ from distutils.core import setup
 
 
 def publish():
-
     """Publish to PyPi"""
     os.system("python setup.py sdist upload")
 
+
 if sys.argv[-1] == "publish":
     publish()
     sys.exit()
+
     
-required = []
+required = ['requests']
+
 
 if sys.version_info[:2] < (2,6):
     required.append('simplejson')
 
-setup(name='gistapi',
-      version=gistapi.__version__,
-      description='Python wrapper for Gist API',
-      long_description=open('README.rst').read() + '\n\n' +
-                       open('HISTORY.rst').read(),
-      author='Kenneth Reitz',
-      author_email='me@kennethreitz.com',
-      url='http://github.com/kennethreitz/gistapi.py',
-      packages=['gistapi'],
-      install_requires=required,
-      license='MIT',
-      classifiers=(
+
+setup(
+    name='gistapi',
+    version=gistapi.__version__,
+    description='Python wrapper for Gist API',
+    long_description=open('README.rst').read() + '\n\n' + open('HISTORY.rst').read(),
+    author='Kenneth Reitz',
+    author_email='me@kennethreitz.com',
+    url='http://github.com/kennethreitz/gistapi.py',
+    packages=['gistapi'],
+    install_requires=required,
+    license='MIT',
+    classifiers=(
         "Development Status :: 4 - Beta",
         "License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License",
         "Programming Language :: Python",
         "Programming Language :: Python :: 2.5",
         "Programming Language :: Python :: 2.6",
         "Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7",
-        )
-      )
+    )
+)