Is there an easy way to request a URL in python and NOT follow redirects?

Question

Looking at the source of urllib2 it looks like the easiest way to do it would be to subclass HTTPRedirectHandler and then use build_opener to override the default HTTPRedirectHandler, but this seems like a lot of (relatively complicated) work to do what seems like it should be pretty simple.

Answer 1

Here is the Requests way:

import requests
r = requests.get('http://github.com', allow_redirects=False)
print(r.status_code, r.headers['Location'])