From 97e3c840845bfe7a10eb3ad4d7431fa7cb8a473d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kenneth Reitz <me@kennethreitz.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 20:57:39 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] simplify the URL check

---
 requests/models.py | 11 +++--------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/requests/models.py b/requests/models.py
index 5d78bdf..b2142ea 100644
--- a/requests/models.py
+++ b/requests/models.py
@@ -130,13 +130,6 @@ class Request(object):
         return '<Request [%s]>' % (self.method)
 
 
-    def _checks(self):
-        """Deterministic checks for consistency."""
-
-        if not self.url:
-            raise URLRequired
-
-
     def _get_opener(self):
         """Creates appropriate opener object for urllib2."""
 
@@ -328,7 +321,9 @@ class Request(object):
         already been sent.
         """
 
-        self._checks()
+        # Some people...
+        if not self.url:
+            raise URLRequired
 
         # Logging
         if self.config.get('verbose'):
-- 
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