Doing a HTTP DELETE operation with urllib2?

Douglas Landgraf dougsland at redhat.com
Fri Dec 30 15:14:56 EST 2011


Hi,

On 12/30/2011 12:01 PM, Roy Smith wrote:
> Is there some way to make urllib2.urlopen() perform a DELETE instead of a GET or POST?
>
>   I'm hoping I don't have to dip way down into httplib.  I've got an application test framework built on top of urllib2.  It makes heavy use of HTTPCookieProcessor.  If I need to use the httplib calls directly, I'll have to re-implement a lot of that machinery.
You might want to look:
https://github.com/dougsland/rhev3-restapi-scripts/blob/master/sample-delete.py

-- 
Cheers
Douglas




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