How to make HTTP DELETE method using urllib2?

Question

Does urllib2 support DELETE or PUT method? If yes provide with any example please. I need to use piston API.

Answer 1

You can subclass the urllib2.Request object and override the method when you instantiate the class.

import urllib2

class RequestWithMethod(urllib2.Request):
  def __init__(self, method, *args, **kwargs):
    self._method = method
    urllib2.Request.__init__(*args, **kwargs)

  def get_method(self):
    return self._method

Courtesy of Benjamin Smedberg