From: Kenneth Reitz Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 08:32:46 +0000 (-0400) Subject: let's do this X-Git-Tag: v0.6.0 X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=refs%2Ftags%2Fv0.6.0;p=services%2Fpython-requests.git let's do this --- diff --git a/HISTORY.rst b/HISTORY.rst index 7d98f8f..b2ae8f9 100644 --- a/HISTORY.rst +++ b/HISTORY.rst @@ -2,16 +2,16 @@ History ------- -0.6.0 (2011-09-??) +0.6.0 (2011-08-17) ++++++++++++++++++ * New callback hook system * New persistient sessions object and context manager * Transparent Dict-cookie handling -* status code reference object +* Status code reference object * Removed Response.cached * Added Response.request -* all args are kwargs +* All args are kwargs * Relative redirect support * HTTPError handling improvements * Improved https testing diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst index feac4c3..529d144 100644 --- a/README.rst +++ b/README.rst @@ -5,12 +5,12 @@ Requests is an ISC Licensed HTTP library, written in Python, for human beings. Most existing Python modules for sending HTTP requests are extremely -verbose and cumbersome. Python’s builtin urllib2 module provides most of +verbose and cumbersome. Python's builtin urllib2 module provides most of the HTTP capabilities you should need, but the api is thoroughly broken. It requires an enormous amount of work (even method overrides) to perform the simplest of tasks. -Things shouldn’t be this way. Not in Python. +Things shouldn't be this way. Not in Python. :: @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ See `the same code, without Requests `_. Requests allow you to send **HEAD**, **GET**, **POST**, **PUT**, **PATCH**, and **DELETE** HTTP requests. You can add headers, form data, multipart files, and parameters with simple Python dictionaries, and access the -response data in the same way. It's powered by :py:class:`urllib2`, but it does +response data in the same way. It's powered by urllib2, but it does all the hard work and crazy hacks for you.