method – Python requests

Requests library is one of the important aspects of Python for making HTTP requests to a specified URL. This article revolves around how one can make request to a specified URL using requests.() method. Before checking out the method, let’s figure out what a Http request is – 
 

Http Method

is a request method supported by HTTP used by the World Wide Web. It is used for modify capabilities. The request only needs to contain the changes to the resource, not the complete resource. This resembles PUT, but the body contains a set of instructions describing how a resource currently residing on the server should be modified to produce a new version. This means that the body should not just be a modified part of the resource, but in some kind of language like JSON or XML . is neither safe nor idempotent.
 

How to make request through Python Requests

Python’s requests module provides in-built method called () for making a request to a specified URI.
Syntax – 
 

requests.(url, params={key: value}, args)

Example – 
Let’s try making a request to httpbin’s APIs for example purposes. 
 

save this file as request.py and through terminal run, 
 

python request.py

Output – 
 

When to use method ?

The method is a request method supported by the HTTP protocol for making partial changes to an existing resource. The method provides an entity containing a list of changes to be applied to the resource requested using the HTTP URI. The list of changes are supplied in the form of a document. If the requested resource does not exist then the server may create the resource depending on the document media type and permissions. The changes described in the document must be semantically well defined but can have a different media type than the resource being ed. Frameworks such as XML, JSON can be used in describing the changes in the document.
 

PUT vs

The main difference between the PUT and method is that the PUT method uses the request URI to supply a modified version of the requested resource which replaces the original version of the resource whereas the method supplies a set of instructions to modify the resource. If the document is larger than the size of the new version of the resource sent by the PUT method then the PUT method is preferred.