close() — requests Function Reference

Architecture documentation for the close() function in models.py from the requests codebase.

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Source Code

src/requests/models.py lines 1030–1041

    def close(self):
        """Releases the connection back to the pool. Once this method has been
        called the underlying ``raw`` object must not be accessed again.

        *Note: Should not normally need to be called explicitly.*
        """
        if not self._content_consumed:
            self.raw.close()

        release_conn = getattr(self.raw, "release_conn", None)
        if release_conn is not None:
            release_conn()