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Python GUI Programming with Tkinter
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Python GUI Programming with Tkinter

by Alan D. Moore
May 2018
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
452 pages
11h 26m
English
Packt Publishing
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Installing and using requests

The requests package is written in pure Python, so installing it with pip requires no compiling or binary downloads. Simply type pip install --user requests in the terminal and it will be added to your system.

Open your Python shell, and let's make some requests as follows:

>>> import requests
>>> response = requests.request('GET', 'http://www.alandmoore.com')
requests.request requires, at minimum, an HTTP method and a URL. Just like urlopen(), it constructs the appropriate request packet, sends it to the URL, and returns an object representing the server's response. Here, we're making a GET request to this author's website.

In addition to the request() function, requests has shortcut functions that correspond ...

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