How to make HTTP DELETE method using urllib2?

Question

Does urllib2 support DELETE or PUT method? If yes provide with any example please. I need to use piston API.

Answer 1

you can do it with httplib:

import httplib  conn = httplib.HTTPConnection('www.foo.com') conn.request('PUT', '/myurl', body)  resp = conn.getresponse() content = resp.read() 

also, check out this question. the accepted answer shows a way to add other methods to urllib2:

import urllib2 opener = urllib2.build_opener(urllib2.HTTPHandler) request = urllib2.Request('http://example.org', data='your_put_data') request.add_header('Content-Type', 'your/contenttype') request.get_method = lambda: 'PUT' url = opener.open(request) 

Answer 2

Correction for Raj's answer:

import urllib2 class RequestWithMethod(urllib2.Request):   def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):     self._method = kwargs.pop('method', None)     urllib2.Request.__init__(self, *args, **kwargs)    def get_method(self):     return self._method if self._method else super(RequestWithMethod, self).get_method()