urllib.request.Request - unexpected keyword argument 'method'

Question

Attempting to use the method argument as seen here yields the following error.

Python 3.2.3 (default, Sep 25 2013, 18:22:43)
>>> import urllib.request as r
>>> r.Request('http://example.com', method='POST')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: __init__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'method'
>>>

No matter what/where I search, I can't seem to find a solution to my problem.

Answer 1

You're looking at the docs for Python 3.3 but running Python 3.2. In Python 3.2 the Request initializer doesn't have a method argument: http://docs.python.org/3.2/library/urllib.request.html#urllib.request.Request

FWIW depending on what kind of request you make (for example if the request includes a body) urllib will automatically use the appropriate method (i.e. POST). If you need to make a more specialized type of request such as HEAD you need to dig a little deeper. There are other answers on SO that help with that.