How do I make a PATCH request in Python?

Question

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.

Solution 1

With Requests, making PATCH requests is very simple:

import requests

r = requests.patch('http://httpbin.org/patch')

Solution 2

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):
 ...
urllib2.HTTPError: HTTP Error 405: Method Not Allowed

Solution 3

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.

Solution 4

It is incredibly simple with httplib2:

import httplib2

http = httplib2.Http()
http.request("http://www.google.com", "PATCH", <patch content>)

I've used the httplib2 library myself in a professional REST framework that includes PATCH support. It supports Python 2.3 or later (including 3.x) and works beautifully!

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Comments

[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.

[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.

[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