FancyURLopener.version equivalence in requests

Question

Sometimes it's necessary to change the version attribute when retrieving a request using FancyURLopener, e.g.

from urllib.request import FancyURLopener

class NewOpener(FancyURLopener):
    version = 'Some fancy thing'

url = 'www.google.com'
opener = NewOpener.retrieve(url, 'google.html')

Is there an equivalence in the requests library when using requests.get()?

Um... I am... really... confused. Do you want to set `User-Agent` in `requests`? — Sraw, Apr 03 '18 at 08:52
Is the `FancyURLopener.version` a `User-Agent`? It's just to set an attribute to the opener but honestly, I'm not exactly sure how `FancyURLopener` is treating the `version` attribute. Is it something special? — alvas, Apr 03 '18 at 08:55
According to official doc, `FancyURLopener`'s `version` is inherited from `URLopener`. And `version` in `URLopener` is used to specify "the user agent of the opener object". ref: https://docs.python.org/3/library/urllib.request.html#urllib.request.URLopener.version — Sraw, Apr 03 '18 at 08:58

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 04 '18 at 00:33

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As @Sraw commented, the "version" is basically the user-agent file in the header, so

requests.get(url, headers={'User-agent': 'Some fancy thing'}

answered Apr 04 '18 at 00:33

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