A Python routine to build a fake httplib2.Response object out of a Requests object, two bottlecaps and some twine.

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def fakeResponse(req):
    """ Replacing httplib2 with Requests without rewriting the planet (har har)
        means that we need to assemble a fake Response object out of the header set
        returned by a Request. Shenanigans ahead. """

    import httplib2 
    info = dict()
    info['status'] = 200
    fake = httplib2.Response(info)

    
    for keys in req.headers:
        setattr(fake, str(keys).lower(), req.headers[keys])

    # We're handling the status like this because httplib2 expects an int there,
    # but some web servers will hand you "200 OK" instead of 200, and Requests 
    # doesn't always do the right thing.

    fake.status    = int(str(req.status_code).split(' ')[0])

    # fromcache and versions have no equivalent in Requests that I can see, so
    # we're just going to lie about it. Per the docs, "11" means "HTTP/1.1",
    # so, this might conceivably break something in a future HTTP2-friendly world.

    fake.fromcache = False
    fake.version   = '11'    
    fake.reason    = req.reason  

    try:
        fake.previous = (req.history[-2]).url
    except:
        fake.previous = req.url

    setattr(fake, 'content-location', req.url)

    # This is particular to Planet's in-house caching sytem.
    fake['-content-hash'] =  ''

    return fake