how to make a delete / put request in python

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I can make get or post request using urllib, but how do I make DELETE- and PUT-requests?

score 7 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 28 '11 at 14:21

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The requests library can handle POST, PUT, DELETE, and all other HTTP methods, and is significantly less scary than urllib, httplib and their variants.

answered Jul 28 '11 at 14:21

mikemaccana

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score 4 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:07

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You can override get_method with something like this:

def _make_request(url, data, method):
    request.urllib2.Request(url, data=data)
    request.get_method = lambda: method

Then you pass "DELETE" as method.

This answer covers the details.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:07

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answered Sep 12 '12 at 16:53

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Brian R. Bondy · Answer 3 · 2010-07-04T22:37:25.180

The method is set implicitly in the urlopen call

When you provide the data parameter a POST will be used.

urllib.request.urlopen(url, data=None[, timeout])

I don't think it's possible to use a DELETE HTTP method with urlib because of this line:

Request.get_method()
Return a string indicating the HTTP request method. This is only meaningful for HTTP requests, and currently always returns 'GET' or 'POST'.

Consider using httplib, httplib2, or Twisted instead .for better support of HTTP methods.

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 04 '10 at 22:32

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PUT request can be performed by httplib2

http://code.google.com/p/httplib2

answered Jul 04 '10 at 22:32

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score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Jul 04 '10 at 22:34

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http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/current/web/howto/client.html

If you're looking to work with HTTP in twisted using the client side I'd suggest checking that out. It demonstrates how you can really easily make a request using the agent class.

answered Jul 04 '10 at 22:34

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score 1 · Answer 6 · answered Jul 04 '10 at 22:35

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As far as I know, urllib and urllib2 only support GET and POST requests. You should probably take a look at httplib or httplib2.

answered Jul 04 '10 at 22:35

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Support for other methods in `urllib`has been added. [Doc](https://docs.python.org/3/library/urllib.request.html#urllib.request.Request) for that. – jar Nov 28 '18 at 13:58

score 0 · Answer 7 · answered May 25 '16 at 08:58

The default HTTP methods in urllib library are POST and GET:

def get_method(self):
    """Return a string indicating the HTTP request method."""
    default_method = "POST" if self.data is not None else "GET"
    return getattr(self, 'method', default_method)

But we can override this get_method() function to get DELETE request:

req = urllib.request.Request(new_url)
req.get_method = lambda: "DELETE"

how to make a delete / put request in python

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