Python requests are generally used to fetch the content from a particular resource URI. Whenever we make a request to a specified URI through Python, it returns a response object. Now, this response object would be used to access certain features such as content, headers, etc. This article revolves around how to check the response.close() out of a response object. response.close() closes the connection to the server
How to use response.close() using Python requests?
To illustrate the use of response.close(), let’s ping API of Github. To run this script, you need to have Python and requests installed on your PC.
Prerequisites:
- Download and Install Python 3 Latest Version
- How to install requests in Python – For windows, linux, mac
Example code:
Python3
# import requests moduleimport requests# Making a put request# print responseprint(response)# closing the connectionresponse.close()# Check if this gets executedprint("Connection Closed") |
Example Implementation:
Save the above file as request.py and run using
Python request.py
Output:
Check that Connection closed at the start of the output, which means the response.close() has been successfully executed.
Advanced Concepts
There are many libraries to make an HTTP request in Python, which are httplib, urllib, httplib2, treq, etc., but requests are one of the best with cool features. If any attribute of requests shows NULL, check the status code using the below attribute.
response.status_code
If status_code doesn’t lie in the range of 200-29. You probably need to check the method to begin used for making a request + the URL you are requesting for resources.
