Is there any way to do HTTP PUT in python

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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

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You can of course roll your own with the existing standard libraries at any level from sockets up to tweaking urllib.

http://pycurl.sourceforge.net/

"PyCurl is a Python interface to libcurl."

"libcurl is a free and easy-to-use client-side URL transfer library, ... supports ... HTTP PUT"

"The main drawback with PycURL is that it is a relative thin layer over libcurl without any of those nice Pythonic class hierarchies. This means it has a somewhat steep learning curve unless you are already familiar with libcurl's C API. "

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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    bob bob com    gt  gt  gt  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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You should have a look at the httplib module   It should let you make whatever sort of HTTP request you want

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This was made better in python3 and documented in the stdlib documentation  The urllib request Request class gained a method     parameter in python3   Some sample usage   req   urllib request Request  https   example com    data b DATA    method  PUT   urllib request urlopen req

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I needed to solve this problem too a while back so that I could act as a client for a RESTful API   I settled on httplib2 because it allowed me to send PUT and DELETE in addition to GET and POST   Httplib2 is not part of the standard library but you can easily get it from the cheese shop

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I also recommend httplib2 by Joe Gregario   I use this regularly instead of httplib in the standard lib

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You can use requests request import requests  url    quot https   www example com some url  quot  payload  quot    quot param1  quot   1    quot param1  quot   2  quot  headers        Authorization              Content-Type    application json     response   requests request  quot PUT quot   url  headers headers  data payload   print response text

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Using urllib3 To do that  you will need to manually encode query parameters in the URL   gt  gt  gt  import urllib3  gt  gt  gt  http   urllib3 PoolManager    gt  gt  gt  from urllib parse import urlencode  gt  gt  gt  encoded args   urlencode   quot name quot   quot Zion quot   quot salary quot   quot 1123 quot   quot age quot   quot 23 quot     gt  gt  gt  url    http   dummy restapiexample com api v1 update 15410    encoded args  gt  gt  gt  r   http request  PUT   url   gt  gt  gt  import json  gt  gt  gt  json loads r data decode  utf-8      status    success    data        message    Successfully  Record has been updated     Using requests  gt  gt  gt  import requests  gt  gt  gt  r   requests put  https   httpbin org put   data     key   value     gt  gt  gt  r status code 200

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Have you taken a look at put py  I ve used it in the past  You can also just hack up your own request with urllib

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If you want to stay within the standard library  you can subclass urllib2 Request   import urllib2  class RequestWithMethod urllib2 Request       def   init   self   args    kwargs           self  method   kwargs pop  method   None          urllib2 Request   init   self   args    kwargs       def get method self           return self  method if self  method else super RequestWithMethod  self  get method     def put request url  data       opener   urllib2 build opener urllib2 HTTPHandler      request   RequestWithMethod url  method  PUT   data data      return opener open request

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Httplib seems like a cleaner choice   import httplib connection    httplib HTTPConnection  1 2 3 4 1234   body content    BODY CONTENT GOES HERE  connection request  PUT     url path to put to   body content  result   connection getresponse     Now result status and result reason contains interesting stuff

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You can use the requests library  it simplifies things a lot in comparison to taking the urllib2 approach  First install it from pip   pip install requests   More on installing requests   Then setup the put request   import requests import json url    https   api github com some endpoint  payload     some    data      Create your header as required headers     content-type    application json    Authorization     lt auth-key gt      r   requests put url  data json dumps payload   headers headers    See the quickstart for requests library   I think this is a lot simpler than urllib2 but does require this additional package to be installed and imported

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import urllib2 opener   urllib2 build opener urllib2 HTTPHandler  request   urllib2 Request  http   example org   data  your put data   request add header  Content-Type    your contenttype   request get method   lambda   PUT  url   opener open request

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A more proper way of doing this with requests would be   import requests  payload     username    bob    email    bob bob com    try      response   requests put url  http   somedomain org endpoint   data payload      response raise for status   except requests exceptions RequestException as e      print e      raise   This raises an exception if there is an error in the HTTP PUT request

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