Querying solr using requests library

gistfile1.txt

SOLR_PATH =  'http://localhost:9000/solr/select/'


def query_solr(q = '', start = 0, rows = 200, fl = 'bibcode,title,recid,citation_count,year,property', sort = "date desc"):
    d = {'q' : q,
         'sort': sort,
         'fl' : fl,
         'start' : start,
         'rows' : rows,
         'wt': 'json',
         'hl': 'true',
         'hl.fl':'abstract,ack,body',

         }
    response = requests.get(SOLR_PATH , params = d)
    if response.status_code == 200:
        results = response.json()
        return results
    sys.stderr.write('There was a network problem: {0}\n'.format(response))
    return