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Mastering Python for Networking and Security
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Mastering Python for Networking and Security

by José Manuel Ortega
September 2018
Intermediate to advanced
426 pages
10h 46m
English
Packt Publishing
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Requests advantages

Among the main advantages of the requests module, we can notice the following:

  • A Library focused on the creation of fully-functional HTTP clients.
  • Supports all methods and features defined in the HTTP protocol.
  • It is "Pythonic," that is, it is completely written in Python and all operations are done in a simple way and with just a few lines of code.
  • Tasks such as integration with web services, the pooling of HTTP connections, coding of POST data in forms, and handling of cookies. All these feature are handled automatically using Requests.
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