From 79bb9ee1417afe2231972c1331308500104e5dc7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kenneth Reitz <me@kennethreitz.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:35:19 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] netrc parsing

---
 requests/utils.py | 34 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 33 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/requests/utils.py b/requests/utils.py
index 97f5860..c9f5ad7 100644
--- a/requests/utils.py
+++ b/requests/utils.py
@@ -11,15 +11,47 @@ that are also useful for external consumption.
 
 import cgi
 import codecs
+import os
 import random
 import re
 import zlib
+from netrc import netrc, NetrcParseError
 
 from .compat import parse_http_list as _parse_list_header
-from .compat import quote, cookielib, SimpleCookie, is_py2
+from .compat import quote, cookielib, SimpleCookie, is_py2, urlparse
 from .compat import basestring, bytes
 
 
+NETRC_FILES = ('.netrc', '_netrc')
+
+
+def get_netrc_auth(url):
+    """Returns the Requests tuple auth for a given url from netrc."""
+
+    locations = (os.path.expanduser('~/{0}'.format(f)) for f in NETRC_FILES)
+    netrc_path = None
+
+    for loc in locations:
+        if os.path.exists(loc) and not netrc_path:
+            netrc_path = loc
+
+    # Abort early if there isn't one.
+    if netrc_path is None:
+        return netrc_path
+
+    ri = urlparse(url)
+
+    # Strip port numbers from netloc
+    host = ri.netloc.split(':')[0]
+
+    try:
+        _netrc = netrc(netrc_path).authenticators(host)
+        # Return with login / password
+        return (_netrc[0 if _netrc[0] else 1], _netrc[2])
+    except NetrcParseError:
+        pass
+
+
 def dict_from_string(s):
     """Returns a MultiDict with Cookies."""
 
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