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PycURL is a Python interface to libcurl.

PycURL is a Python interface to libcurl. PycURL can be used to fetch objects identified by a URL from a Python program, similar to the urllib Python module. PycURL is mature, very fast, and supports a lot of features.

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"Could not run curl-config: [Errno 2] No such file or directory" when installing pycurl

I'm trying to install pycurl via: sudo pip install pycurl It downloaded fine, but when when it runs setup.py I get the following traceback: Downloading/unpacking pycurl Running setup.py egg_info for package pycurl Traceback (most recent call…
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Making an API call in Python with an API that requires a bearer token

Looking for some help with integrating a JSON API call into a Python program. I am looking to integrate the following API into a Python .py program to allow it to be called and the response to be printed. The API guidance states that a bearer token…
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Why can't Python find shared objects that are in directories in sys.path?

I'm trying to import pycurl: $ python -c "import pycurl" Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in ImportError: libcurl.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Now, libcurl.so.4 is in…
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Execute curl command within a Python script

I am trying to execute a curl command within a python script. If I do it in the terminal, it looks like this: curl -X POST -d '{"nw_src": "10.0.0.1/32", "nw_dst": "10.0.0.2/32", "nw_proto": "ICMP", "actions": "ALLOW", "priority": "10"}'…
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SSL backend error when using OpenSSL

I was trying to install pycurl in a virtualenv using pip and I got this error ImportError: pycurl: libcurl link-time ssl backend (openssl) is different from compile-time ssl backend (none/other) I read some documentation saying that "To fix this,…
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Which is best in Python: urllib2, PycURL or mechanize?

Ok so I need to download some web pages using Python and did a quick investigation of my options. Included with Python: urllib - seems to me that I should use urllib2 instead. urllib has no cookie support, HTTP/FTP/local files only (no SSL) urllib2…
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Python Requests vs PyCurl Performance

How does the Requests library compare with the PyCurl performance wise? My understanding is that Requests is a python wrapper for urllib whereas PyCurl is a python wrapper for libcurl which is native, so PyCurl should get better performance, but…
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Convert io.BytesIO to io.StringIO to parse HTML page

I'm trying to parse a HTML page I retrieved through pyCurl but the pyCurl WRITEFUNCTION is returning the page as BYTES and not string, so I'm unable to Parse it using BeautifulSoup. Is there any way to convert io.BytesIO to io.StringIO? Or Is there…
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How do I get the IP address from a http request using the requests library?

I am making HTTP requests using the requests library in python, but I need the IP address from the server that responded to the HTTP request and I'm trying to avoid making two calls (and possibly having a different IP address from the one that…
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pycurl and SSL cert

I am trying to write a pycurl script to access a secured site (HTTPS). c = pycurl.Curl() c.setopt(pycurl.USERAGENT, 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0') c.setopt(pycurl.URL,…
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How can I install pyCurl?

I used libcurl with no problems and used pyCurl once in the past. Now i want to set it up on my machine and dev. However i have no idea how to do it. I rather not DL libcirl files and compile that along with pycurl, i want to know the simplest…
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Custom headers with pycurl

Can I send a custom header like "yaddayadda" to the server with the pycurl request?
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How to read the header with pycurl

How do I read the response headers returned from a PyCurl request?
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ImportError: pycurl: libcurl link-time ssl backend (openssl) is different from compile-time ssl backend (none/other)

I wanted to run python file. But I could check this error when I ran it. ImportError: pycurl: libcurl link-time ssl backend (openssl) is different from compile-time ssl backend (none/other) My system is Mac os 10.13.2 and I used python 2.7
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How to get HTTP status message in (py)curl?

spending some time studying pycurl and libcurl documentation, i still can't find a (simple) way, how to get HTTP status message (reason-phrase) in pycurl. status code is easy: import pycurl import cStringIO curl = pycurl.Curl() buff =…
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