Is there any way to do HTTP PUT in python

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Rory picture Rory · Sep 21, 2008 · Viewed 153.7k times · Source

I need to upload some data to a server using HTTP PUT in python. From my brief reading of the urllib2 docs, it only does HTTP POST. Is there any way to do an HTTP PUT in python?

Answer

John Carter picture John Carter · Nov 24, 2011

I've used a variety of python HTTP libs in the past, and I've settled on 'Requests' as my favourite. Existing libs had pretty useable interfaces, but code can end up being a few lines too long for simple operations. A basic PUT in requests looks like:

payload = {'username': 'bob', 'email': '[email protected]'}
>>> r = requests.put("http://somedomain.org/endpoint", data=payload)

You can then check the response status code with:

r.status_code

or the response with:

r.content

Requests has a lot synactic sugar and shortcuts that'll make your life easier.

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