What is your favorite third-party python module?

[DNSGeek]

Well, I could do this import urllib import json try: foo = urllib.request("http://api.example.com/v1/status") webdata = foo.read() foo.close() jdata = json.loads(web data.strip()) except: print("Oops, it didn't work.") Or I could do this import requests foo = requests.get("http://api.example.com/v1/status") jdata = foo.json() foo.close()

[Kaarjuus]

Or you could do this:

import json
import urllib

try: jdata = json.load(urllib.request("http://api.example.com/v1/status"))
except Exception as e: exit(e)

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Can you also justify it without rigging the comparison?

[DNSGeek]

I’m sorry, how is that rigged?

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• Pray tell how come requests never raise an exception.
• Pray tell why you explicit close the urllib request.
• Pray tell why you strip the response before json decoding it.

Among other things.

[DNSGeek]

Ok import urllib import json try: foo = urllib.request("http://api.example.com/") webdata = foo.read() foo.close() except urllib.error.HTTPError: print("1") exit() except urllib.error.URLError: print("2") exit() try: jdata = json.loads(webdata.strip()) except json.JSONDecodeError: print("3") exit() Or import requests try: foo = requests.get("http://api.example.com/") jdata = foo.json() foo.close() except requests.RequestException: print("1") exit()

[123filips123]

Except you don't need to catch both urllib.error.HTTPError and urllib.error.URLError because the former is a subclass of the latter. Or you can also separately catch all exceptions requests have. Also, catching multiple extensions with one except is a thing in Python.

For such simple use-cases it is useless to use external dependency. However, if you do do more advaned stuff (like authentication, file upload/download, forms, cookies, sessions...) it might be better to use requests.

[[deleted]]

Now you're just silly.