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This attempts to fix an issue where encoding of a string might fail when the encoding is set to some unknown format. Here we attempt to catch the LookupException and subsequently blindly encode the string one final time. That is we call str() over response.content without specifying an encoding. This may still fail in certain cases but does properly handle the case of #338 by returning the expected string.
Requests: HTTP for Humans
=========================
.. image:: https://secure.travis-ci.org/kennethreitz/requests.png?branch=develop
Requests is an ISC 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.
::
>>> 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 **HEAD**, **GET**, **POST**, **PUT**,
**PATCH**, and **DELETE** HTTP 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
Installation
------------
To install requests, simply: ::
$ pip install requests
Or, if you absolutely must: ::
$ easy_install requests
But, you really shouldn't do that.
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 **develop** 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: http://github.com/kennethreitz/requests/blob/master/AUTHORS