From: Kenneth Reitz Date: Sun, 15 May 2011 16:49:19 +0000 (-0400) Subject: better X-Git-Tag: v0.4.1^2~58 X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=79b43b2b6e076d10831176317557fdd565695559;p=services%2Fpython-requests.git better --- diff --git a/docs/index.rst b/docs/index.rst index 7d6b51d..28e6e1d 100644 --- a/docs/index.rst +++ b/docs/index.rst @@ -8,16 +8,18 @@ Requests: Python HTTP (That Doesn't Suck)! Release |version|. -Requests is an :ref:`ISC Licensed ` HTTP library, written in Python. +Requests is an :ref:`ISC Licensed ` HTTP library, written in Python. -Most existing Python modules for sending HTTP requests are insane. This one strives to focus on the 95% use case: Simply sending the requests. +Most existing Python modules for sending HTTP requests are extremely verbose and cumbersome. Python's builtin :py:class:`urllib2` module provides all the HTTP functionality I need, but it's api is **broken**. It reqires an enormous amount of work (even method ovrrides) to do the simplet of things. So, I decided to wrap it and make it super simple. -GET, HEAD, PUT, POST, DELETE. +Requests allow you to send GET, HEAD, PUT, POST, DELETE requests. You can add headers, form data, miltipart files, and parameters with simple Python dictionaries. -How Simple? +It's Simple ----------- +How Simple? + requests ~~~~~~~~