Adding an HTTP method to urllib2.Request.

methodreq.py

import urllib2

class MethodRequest(urllib2.Request):
    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        if 'method' in kwargs:
            self._method = kwargs['method']
            del kwargs['method']
        else:
            self._method = None
        return urllib2.Request.__init__(self, *args, **kwargs)

    def get_method(self, *args, **kwargs):
        if self._method is not None:
            return self._method
        return urllib2.Request.get_method(self, *args, **kwargs)

Thanks, works a charm!