WHY REQUESTS FEELS PYTHONIC

Idiomatic traits of requests:

• no need to instantiate multiple objects to configure a request
• batteries included: default configuration handles authentication
• result object has a status_code attribute (instead of a getcode() method)
• result object has a mapping of header fields

(instead of a getheader(key) method)

import requests

r = requests.get('https://api.github.com', auth=('user', 'pass'))

print r.status_code
print r.headers['content-type']
14