What properties and functions are supported on urllib.request.Request objects?

urllib.request.Request objects support the following properties and functions:

>>> q = urllib.request.Request(url)
host           # represents the host name of the url.
type           # represents the internet protocol type of the url.
full_url       # represents the url
method         # represents the method of the request.
headers        # represents user added headers
header_items() # returns all headers
add_header()   # adds more headers
data           # represents the body of the request as binary
>>> dir(q)
['__class__', ..., 'add_header', 'add_unredirected_header', 'data', 
 'fragment', 'full_url', 'get_full_url', 'get_header', 'get_method', 
 'has_header', 'has_proxy', 'header_items', 'headers', 'host', 'method', 
 'origin_req_host', 'remove_header', 'selector', 'set_proxy', 'timeout', 
 'type', 'unredirected_hdrs', 'unverifiable']

Here is a Python example showing urllib.request.Request properties:

>>> import urllib
>>> url = 'http://httpbin.org/post'
>>> form = {'user':'fyicenter', 'msg':'hello world!'}
>>> data = urllib.parse.urlencode(form)
>>> data = bytes(data,'utf8')
>>> headers = { 'Referer' : 'http://dev.fyicenter.com' }
>>> q = urllib.request.Request(url,data,headers,method='POST')
>>> q.method
'POST'
>>> q.type
'http'
>>> q.host
'httpbin.org'
>>> q.headers
{'Referer': 'http://dev.fyicenter.com'}
>>> q.data
b'user=fyicenter&msg=hello+world%21'

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