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I was wondering, how do you close a connection with Requests (python-requests.org)? With httplib it's HTTPConnection.close() , but how do I do the same with Requests? Code is below: r = requests.post("https://stream.twitter.com/1/statuses/filter.json", data={'track':toTrack}, auth=('username', 'passwd')) for line in r.iter_lines(): if line: self.mongo['db'].tweets.insert(json.loads(line)) Thanks in advance. Felix Fung As discussed here , there really isn't such a thing as an HTTP connection and what httplib refers to as the HTTPConnection is really the underlying TCP connection which doesn't

I'd like to tell urllib2.urlopen (or a custom opener ) to use 127.0.0.1 (or ::1 ) to resolve addresses. I wouldn't change my /etc/resolv.conf , however. One possible solution is to use a tool like dnspython to query addresses and httplib to build a custom url opener. I'd prefer telling urlopen to use a custom nameserver though. Any suggestions? Looks like name resolution is ultimately handled by socket.create_connection . -> urllib2.urlopen -> httplib.HTTPConnection -> socket.create_connection Though once the "Host:" header has been set, you can resolve the host and pass on the IP address

I am trying to GET a URL using Python and the response is JSON. However, when I run import urllib2 response = urllib2.urlopen('https://api.instagram.com/v1/tags/pizza/media/XXXXXX') html=response.read() print html The html is of type str and I am expecting a JSON. Is there any way I can capture the response as JSON or a python dictionary instead of a str. If the URL is returning valid JSON-encoded data, use the json library to decode that: import urllib2 import json response = urllib2.urlopen('https://api.instagram.com/v1/tags/pizza/media/XXXXXX') data = json.load(response) print data

I've got a string from an HTTP header, but it's been escaped.. what function can I use to unescape it? myemail%40gmail.com -> myemail@gmail.com Would urllib.unquote() be the way to go? I am pretty sure that urllib's unquote is the common way of doing this. >>> import urllib >>> urllib.unquote("myemail%40gmail.com") 'myemail@gmail.com' There's also unquote_plus : Like unquote(), but also replaces plus signs by spaces, as required for unquoting HTML form values. Yes, it appears that urllib.unquote() accomplishes that task. (I tested it against your example on codepad .) Antti Haapala In Python 3