api_calls_from_python.py

import requests
import http.client

def apicall_using_requests():
    url = "https://api.postcodes.io/random/postcodes"

    payload={}
    headers = {}

    response = requests.request("GET", url, headers=headers, data=payload)

    print(response.text)
    print(type(response.text))


def apicall_using_httpclient():
    conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection("api.postcodes.io")
    payload = ''
    headers = {}
    conn.request("GET", "/random/postcodes", payload, headers)
    res = conn.getresponse()
    data = res.read()
    print(data.decode("utf-8"))
    print(type(data.decode("utf-8")))


apicall_using_requests()
apicall_using_httpclient()