Is there a way to make a request using the PATCH HTTP method in Python?
I tried using httplib, but it doesn't accept PATCH as method param.
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5Did you mean PUT? PUSH is not a valid request method for HTTPdave– dave2011-07-28 01:04:47 +00:00Commented Jul 28, 2011 at 1:04
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Check here, it uses PUT on that post, I guess you can use PUSH as a verb and wont give you trouble, still you should use PUT instead of PUSHHassek– Hassek2011-07-28 01:28:34 +00:00Commented Jul 28, 2011 at 1:28
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Sorry, people, I typed the wrong method name, I edited the question o.ORicardo Augusto– Ricardo Augusto2011-07-28 12:42:20 +00:00Commented Jul 28, 2011 at 12:42
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3Cat Plus Plus: yes, there is a PATCH method. dave: PUSH is "valid". There's a difference between "valid" and "registered".Julian Reschke– Julian Reschke2011-07-28 12:57:13 +00:00Commented Jul 28, 2011 at 12:57
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Cat Plus Plus: here about PATCH method innoq.com/blog/st/2010/03/rfc_5789_patch_method_for_http.html It's ironic that Google support and use it in APIs but GAE urlfetch doesn't work with it.Ricardo Augusto– Ricardo Augusto2011-07-28 13:36:04 +00:00Commented Jul 28, 2011 at 13:36
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4 Answers
With Requests, making PATCH requests is very simple:
import requests
r = requests.patch('http://httpbin.org/patch')
3 Comments
Hussain
How do I log
r. Should I just do self.log.info('Response: %s' % r)?
Ace McCloud
how can i pass string json data into this ?
No Sssweat
@PrasaanthNeelakandan over here are better answers Post JSON using Python Requests
Seems to work in 2.7.1 as well.
>>> import urllib2
>>> request = urllib2.Request('http://google.com')
>>> request.get_method = lambda: 'PATCH'
>>> resp = urllib2.urlopen(request)
Traceback (most recent call last):
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urllib2.HTTPError: HTTP Error 405: Method Not Allowed
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Corey O.
Great information. This is a simple little hack to make urllib2 use PATCH instead of POST. I don't know why PATCH hasn't been implemented as an option yet.
I tried this in Python 3, and it seemed to work (but I don't have a server handy that supports the PATCH request type):
>>> import http.client
>>> c = http.client.HTTPConnection("www.google.com")
>>> r = c.request("PATCH", "/index.html")
>>> print(r.status, r.reason)
405 Method Not Allowed
I'm assuming that the HTTP 405 is coming from the server and that it is "not allowed".
By the way, thanks for showing me the cool PATCH method in HTTP.
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Ricardo Augusto
Thanks for the answer, I will try that later and mark as accepted. GitHub API accepted POST instead of PATCH, but I will give that a try and keep this for future.
It is incredibly simple with httplib2:
import httplib2
http = httplib2.Http()
http.request("http://www.google.com", "PATCH", <patch content>)
It supports Python 2.3 or later (including 3.x) and works beautifully!
