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python requests API

Playing around with python and I'm confused on the API. Given:
http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/api/, specifically: class requests.Response and the 'headers' attribute.

Now reference:
http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/user/quickstart/, specifically:

>>> r.headers['Content-Type']
'application/json'

>>> r.headers.get('content-type')
'application/json'

I understand r.headers[], however, I'm not understanding r.headers.get(''). How do they arrive at a get method when the Response object (first link) does not have a get method ?

pepr

You may have overlooked or you were thinking about something else, but the Response object does have the get() method:

requests.get(url, **kwargs)

Sends a GET request. Returns Response object.
Parameters:

url – URL for the new Request object.
**kwargs – Optional arguments that request takes.

You were apparently thinking about the headers which is a dictionary. The (standard) dictionary type has the .get() method which does what basically [] does. However, the .get() method may have optional second argument that says what is the default returned if the key is not in the dictionary.

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I think I'm following you. I'm unable to try this right now given I'm not in front of a compiler, however I'm assuming I should be able to access the other methods in requests via headers from the response object. I.e

 r.headers.put 
r.headers.delete
etc

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