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1httplib2 for Python 3
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3This directory contains a port of httplib2 to Python 3. As you may
4know, Python 3 is not backward-compatible with Python 2. The biggest
5change in Python 3 (that affects httplib2) is the distinction between
6bytes and strings.
7
8To successfully use http2lib for Python 3, you absolutely must
9understand the following sentence:
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11** THE RESPONSE HEADERS ARE STRINGS, BUT THE CONTENT BODY IS BYTES **
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14Example:
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16>>> import httplib2, pprint
17>>> h = httplib2.Http(".cache")
18>>> (resp_headers, content) = h.request("http://example.org/", "GET")
19>>> pprint.pprint(resp_headers)
20{'accept-ranges': 'bytes',
21 'connection': 'close',
22 'content-length': '438',
23 'content-location': 'http://example.org/',
24 'content-type': 'text/html; charset=UTF-8',
25 'date': 'Fri, 29 May 2009 03:57:29 GMT',
26 'etag': '"b80f4-1b6-80bfd280"',
27 'last-modified': 'Tue, 15 Nov 2005 13:24:10 GMT',
28 'server': 'Apache/2.2.3 (CentOS)',
29 'status': '200'}
30>>> type(content)
31<class 'bytes'>
32>>> content[:49]
33b'<HTML>\r\n<HEAD>\r\n <TITLE>Example Web Page</TITLE>'
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36Further reading:
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38 * http://diveintopython3.org/strings.html
39 * http://docs.python.org/3.0/whatsnew/3.0.html#text-vs-data-instead-of-unicode-vs-8-bit
40 * http://docs.python.org/3.0/howto/unicode.html
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46Copyright (c) 2006 by Joe Gregorio
47Copyright (c) 2009 by Mark Pilgrim
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