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Requests in Python for Windows - perthpython - Nov-13-2016

Hi. I'm very new to Python (like 24 hours new). I have setup Python on a Windows machine. I used Python 3.5.2
Have successfully written a small script to fire up a browser and go to a web page with no problem. But now I want to interact with the webpage and am reading Requests is a good way to go.
Now to my problem - it seems that Requests needs to be installed and to do that I need PIP. Everything I read suggests PIP is probably already installed as part of Python 3.5.2 but I can't find the "scripts" folder to even confirm if I have PIP and start using it. Maybe its a hidden folder or I'm looking in the wrong place.
Any help from someone with experience in Python on windows would be very much appreciated. Thanks in advance.

RE: Requests in Python for Windows - snippsat - Nov-13-2016

(Nov-13-2016, 03:10 AM)perthpython Wrote: Everything I read suggests PIP is probably already installed as part of Python 3.5.2 but I can't find the "scripts" folder

Follow this.
So make sure that "Add Python 3.5 to PATH" and "pip" is marked under installation.
And chose a better path like eg C:\Python35.
Restart.
Now you check that "python" and "pip" command work from anywhere in cmd.
pip -V to check version.

C:\>pip -V
pip 9.0.0 from c:\python34\lib\site-packages (python 3.4)
C:\>

So this should be 3.5 placement for you.

You can upgrade pip,it's okay to do it from Scripts folder("pip.exe" is placed here).
Eg.

C:\>cd python34\scripts
C:\Python34\Scripts>pip install --upgrade pip

Now should version be 9.0.1.

Now should pip install requests work from anywhere in cmd.

RE: Requests in Python for Windows - Larz60+ - Nov-13-2016

In 3.5.2, you don't need to install requests, it's already there in urllib. Now named request
Use it this way:

import urllib.request as ur

url = 'www.google.com'  # Your url here
rdata = ur.urlopen(url).read().decode('utf8')

RE: Requests in Python for Windows - snippsat - Nov-13-2016

No,he mean Requests there is and extra s Wink

RE: Requests in Python for Windows - Larz60+ - Nov-13-2016

Oh, OK is that also for fetching web pages?
Checked it out, I do so little (avoid it actually) web programming, I never looked at it until now!

RE: Requests in Python for Windows - snippsat - Nov-13-2016

Yes and a much better choice than urllib.request.
You don't have to guess on encoding,you get the right encoding
As just one example why is better.

import requests

url = 'http://google.com'
rdata = requests.get(url)
print(rdata.encoding) # ISO-8859-1
print(rdata.text) # Source code

It's a popular kid Cool

Quote:Requests is one of the most downloaded Python packages of all time,
pulling in over 7,000,000 downloads every month. All the cool kids are doing it!

RE: Requests in Python for Windows - perthpython - Nov-13-2016

Thanks to you both. Very much appreciate your time. Snippsat you are a champion.