MTConnect probe reader with requests

reader.py

# import requests

namespace = True

def mt_request():
	url = 'http://agent.mtconnect.org/sample'
	payload = { 'interval': '1000', 'count':'20' }

	r = requests.get(url, params=payload, stream=True)
	part = []
	for line in r.iter_lines():
		if line.startswith('--'): # start of new chunk
			if not part:
				continue  # Handle empty parts
	
			strpart = '\r\n'.join(part[2:])
			
			headers = ''.join(part[0:2])
			body = ''.join(strpart.split('\r\n\r\n',1))
			
			print (headers, body)
			
			# Clean up for the next chunk.
			part = []
	
		elif line:  # Portion of current chunk.
			if namespace:
				if line.startswith('<MTConnectStreams'):
					line = '<MTConnectStreams>'
				if line.startswith('<MTConnectAssets'):
					line = ' <MTConnectAssets> '
				if line.startswith('<MTConnectDevices'):
					line = ' <MTConnectDevices> '
	
			part.append(line)