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copied!<p>I know its been said already, but I'd highly recommend the Requests python package: <a href="http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/index.html" rel="noreferrer">http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/index.html</a></p> <p>If you've used languages other than python, you're probably thinking urllib and urllib2 are easy to use, not much code, and highly capable, that's how I used to think. But the Requests package is so unbelievably useful and short that everyone should be using it.</p> <p>First, it supports a fully restful API, and is as easy as:</p> <pre><code>import requests ... resp = requests.get('http://www.mywebsite.com/user') resp = requests.post('http://www.mywebsite.com/user') resp = requests.put('http://www.mywebsite.com/user/put') resp = requests.delete('http://www.mywebsite.com/user/delete') </code></pre> <p>Regardless of whether GET/POST you never have to encode parameters again, it simply takes a dictionary as an argument and is good to go.</p> <pre><code>userdata = {"firstname": "John", "lastname": "Doe", "password": "jdoe123"} resp = requests.post('http://www.mywebsite.com/user', data=userdata) </code></pre> <p>Plus it even has a built in json decoder (again, i know json.loads() isn't a lot more to write, but this sure is convenient):</p> <pre><code>resp.json() </code></pre> <p>Or if your response data is just text, use:</p> <pre><code>resp.text </code></pre> <p>This is just the tip of the iceberg. This is the list of features from the requests site:</p> <ul> <li>International Domains and URLs</li> <li>Keep-Alive & Connection Pooling</li> <li>Sessions with Cookie Persistence</li> <li>Browser-style SSL Verification</li> <li>Basic/Digest Authentication</li> <li>Elegant Key/Value Cookies</li> <li>Automatic Decompression</li> <li>Unicode Response Bodies</li> <li>Multipart File Uploads</li> <li>Connection Timeouts</li> <li>.netrc support</li> <li>List item</li> <li>Python 2.6—3.4</li> <li>Thread-safe.</li> </ul>

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