From f7481adf45608d27853292ea733b9bee801dc13d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kenneth Reitz Date: Sun, 15 May 2011 13:05:22 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] better verbage --- docs/index.rst | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/index.rst b/docs/index.rst index 42876f3..1f315c7 100644 --- a/docs/index.rst +++ b/docs/index.rst @@ -10,9 +10,9 @@ Release |version|. Requests is an :ref:`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 :py:class:`urllib2` module provides all the HTTP functionality I need, but it's api is thoroughly **broken**. It reqires an enormous amount of work (even method overrides) to do the simplest of things. +Most existing Python modules for sending HTTP requests are extremely verbose and cumbersome. Python's builtin :py:class:`urllib2` module provides all the HTTP capabilities required, but the api is thoroughly **broken**. It reqires an *enormous* amount of work (even method overrides) to perform the simplest of tasks. -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. It's powered by :py:class:`urllib2`, but it does all the hard work and crazy hacks for you. +Enter Requests. Requests allow you to send **GET**, **HEAD**, **PUT**, **POST**, and **DELETE** HTTP requests. You can add headers, form data, miltipart 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 all the hard work and crazy hacks for you. It's Simple -- 2.7.4