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Narkw Brahma

Narkw Brahma

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Python Requests Put

If you are working with APIs, sending data to a server is one of the most important tasks. You can do it with different methods, and one of them is by using the "PUT" method. PUT method is used to update data on the server. It's similar to POST, but instead of creating new data, it updates existing data.

If you are working with Python, you can use the requests library to send HTTP requests to the server. The requests library provides a method called "put" to send a PUT request to the server. The syntax of the requests put method is:


import requests

response = requests.put(url, data=None, json=None, **kwargs)

The arguments of the requests put method are:

  • url: The URL of the resource you want to update.
  • data: A dictionary, list of tuples or bytes to send in the body of the request.
  • json: A JSON serializable Python object to send in the body of the request.
  • kwargs: Any other optional arguments that you want to pass to the request.

If you want to update a resource on the server, you need to provide the URL of the resource and the data that you want to update. Here is an example of how to use the requests put method:


import requests

url = "https://example.com/api/books/1"
data = {"title": "New Title", "author": "New Author"}
response = requests.put(url, data=data)

print(response.status_code)

In this example, we are updating a book with ID 1. We are sending the updated data in the "data" argument of the requests put method. The server will update the resource and return a response with a status code indicating the success or failure of the request.

You can also send JSON data in the body of the request by using the "json" argument of the requests put method. Here is an example:


import requests

url = "https://example.com/api/books/1"
data = {"title": "New Title", "author": "New Author"}
response = requests.put(url, json=data)

print(response.status_code)

In this example, we are sending the same data but in JSON format. The server will parse the JSON data and update the resource accordingly.

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