Reusable class for Python requests library.

requests_api.py

# http://docs.python-requests.org/en/master/api/
import requests

class RequestsApi:
    def __init__(self, base_url, **kwargs):
        self.base_url = base_url
        self.session = requests.Session()
        for arg in kwargs:
            if isinstance(kwargs[arg], dict):
                kwargs[arg] = self.__deep_merge(getattr(self.session, arg), kwargs[arg])
            setattr(self.session, arg, kwargs[arg])

    def request(self, method, url, **kwargs):
        return self.session.request(method, self.base_url+url, **kwargs)

    def head(self, url, **kwargs):
        return self.session.head(self.base_url+url, **kwargs)

    def get(self, url, **kwargs):
        return self.session.get(self.base_url+url, **kwargs)

    def post(self, url, **kwargs):
        return self.session.post(self.base_url+url, **kwargs)

    def put(self, url, **kwargs):
        return self.session.put(self.base_url+url, **kwargs)

    def patch(self, url, **kwargs):
        return self.session.patch(self.base_url+url, **kwargs)

    def delete(self, url, **kwargs):
        return self.session.delete(self.base_url+url, **kwargs)

    @staticmethod
    def __deep_merge(source, destination):
        for key, value in source.items():
            if isinstance(value, dict):
                node = destination.setdefault(key, {})
                RequestsApi.__deep_merge(value, node)
            else:
                destination[key] = value
        return destination

z-example.py

from requests_api import RequestsApi

github = RequestsApi("https://api.github.com")
r = github.get("/gists/96b655f1512d1ce9d570e008dbe122d3")
print(r.json())

github = RequestsApi("https://api.github.com", headers={"Authorization": "token abcdef"})
r = github.get("/user", headers={"Accept": "application/json"})
print(r.text)