Proxies with Python 'Requests' module

Question

Just a short, simple one about the excellent Requests module for Python.

I can\'t seem to find in the documentation what the variable \'proxies\' should contain. Whe

Answer 1

I have found that urllib has some really good code to pick up the system's proxy settings and they happen to be in the correct form to use directly. You can use this like:

import urllib

...
r = requests.get('http://example.org', proxies=urllib.request.getproxies())

It works really well and urllib knows about getting Mac OS X and Windows settings as well.