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Chris Kuehl
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There exists a problem (maybe a bug?) in pip when using a locale like `LC_ALL=C` (which is commonly used by CI environments and system configuration tools such as Puppet), where the PKG-INFO file is decoded using ascii, raising a UnicodeDecodeError when PKG-INFO contains non-ASCII characters (such as the n-dash removed by this commit): > Downloading/unpacking requests from https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/r/requests/requests-2.5.1.tar.gz > Downloading requests-2.5.1.tar.gz (443Kb): 443Kb downloaded > Running setup.py egg_info for package requests > > Exception: > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip/basecommand.py", line 104, in main > status = self.run(options, args) > File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip/commands/install.py", line 245, in run > requirement_set.prepare_files(finder, force_root_egg_info=self.bundle, bundle=self.bundle) > File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip/req.py", line 1014, in prepare_files > req_to_install.assert_source_matches_version() > File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip/req.py", line 359, in assert_source_matches_version > version = self.installed_version > File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip/req.py", line 351, in installed_version > return self.pkg_info()['version'] > File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip/req.py", line 318, in pkg_info > data = self.egg_info_data('PKG-INFO') > File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip/req.py", line 261, in egg_info_data > data = fp.read() > File "/usr/lib/python3.2/encodings/ascii.py", line 26, in decode > return codecs.ascii_decode(input, self.errors)[0] > UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 8161: ordinal not in range(128) I'm not able to reproduce this by installing the package directly, only by installing another package which depends on it (via `install_requires`). The command I used was `LC_ALL=C /usr/bin/pip-3.2 install --upgrade ocflib`, with "pip 1.1 from /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages (python 3.2)" (which is the packaged version for Debian 7). Although this should probably be addressed ultimately in pip, replacing this character in HISTORY is a pain-free and pragmatic way to help developers and system administrators who may be stuck with old versions of pip for many years to come.
Requests: HTTP for Humans
=========================
.. image:: https://badge.fury.io/py/requests.png
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.. image:: https://pypip.in/d/requests/badge.png
:target: https://crate.io/packages/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.
#. If you feel uncomfortable or uncertain about an issue or your changes, feel free to email @sigmavirus24 and he will happily help you via email, Skype, remote pairing or whatever you are comfortable with.
#. 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