Python in a Nutshell

Name

Request

Synopsis

class Request(urlstring,data=None,headers={})

urlstring is the URL that this instance of class Request embodies. For example, if there are no data and headers, calling:

urllib2.urlopen(urllib2.Request(urlstring))

is just like calling:

urllib2.urlopen(urlstring)

When data is not None, the Request constructor implicitly calls on the new instance r its method r .add_data( data ). headers must be a mapping of header names to header values. The Request constructor executes the equivalent of the loop:

for k,v in headers.items( ): r.add_header(k,v)

An instance r of class Request supplies the following methods.