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From: John Gordon <gordon@panix.com>
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Subject: Re: error reading api with urllib
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2015 22:12:02 +0000 (UTC)
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In <9aa21642-765b-4666-8c66-a6dab9928c37@googlegroups.com> simian336@gmail.com writes:

> Bad Request
> b''


That probably means you aren't using one of the recognized methods
(i.e. GET, POST, etc.)

It doesn't look like you are specifying one of these methods on your
Request object.  Try doing that.

(It works in your browser because it defaults to GET automatically.)

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