On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 4:34 PM, Robert Kern <robert.k...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I'm pretty sure that Requests will use either urllib or urllib2, >> depending on what is available on the server. > > No, it doesn't. It gets its quote() function from urllib always. >
I see, thanks. Then that is what I will do as well! >> I would like to use >> whatever Requests is currently using, rather than import the other. >> Can I tell which library Requests is currently using and use that? > > > The only thing I can think that you are talking about is the difference > between Python 2 and Python 3. In Python 2, it's urllib.quote() and in > Python 3, it's urllib.parse.quote(), but that's a Python-version issue, not > something to do with requests, per se. requests does have a compatibility > layer, internally, that pastes over those issues, but I don't think that is > intended to be a stable public API that you should rely on. You should > handle that kind of switch yourself if you care about compatibility across > both versions of Python. > > https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests/blob/master/requests/compat.py#L86 > Great, thank you Robert. I see that Requests is calling both urllib and urllib2. For some reason I thought that is rather wasteful and should be avoided. I was probably wrong! -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
