prepare() — requests Function Reference

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

Function python CoreAPI VerbHandlers calls 1 called by 1

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  075eaa90_3b36_3d32_fc50_b57c7c8fe638["Request"]
  2b8e3c1b_1e51_43b6_6d22_360c4395b029 -->|defined in| 075eaa90_3b36_3d32_fc50_b57c7c8fe638
  3fc6c343_3d70_670f_636f_1fcab0f8a681["prepare()"]
  3fc6c343_3d70_670f_636f_1fcab0f8a681 -->|calls| 2b8e3c1b_1e51_43b6_6d22_360c4395b029
  3fc6c343_3d70_670f_636f_1fcab0f8a681["prepare()"]
  2b8e3c1b_1e51_43b6_6d22_360c4395b029 -->|calls| 3fc6c343_3d70_670f_636f_1fcab0f8a681
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Source Code

src/requests/models.py lines 297–312

    def prepare(self):
        """Constructs a :class:`PreparedRequest <PreparedRequest>` for transmission and returns it."""
        p = PreparedRequest()
        p.prepare(
            method=self.method,
            url=self.url,
            headers=self.headers,
            files=self.files,
            data=self.data,
            json=self.json,
            params=self.params,
            auth=self.auth,
            cookies=self.cookies,
            hooks=self.hooks,
        )
        return p