pycurl Module Functionality

pycurl.global_init(option) → None

Initialize curl environment.

option is one of the constants pycurl.GLOBAL_SSL, pycurl.GLOBAL_WIN32, pycurl.GLOBAL_ALL, pycurl.GLOBAL_NOTHING, pycurl.GLOBAL_DEFAULT.

Corresponds to curl_global_init in libcurl.

pycurl.global_cleanup() → None

Cleanup curl environment.

Corresponds to curl_global_cleanup in libcurl.

pycurl.version

This is a string with version information on libcurl, corresponding to curl_version in libcurl.

Example usage:

>>> import pycurl
>>> pycurl.version
'PycURL/7.19.3 libcurl/7.33.0 OpenSSL/0.9.8x zlib/1.2.7'

pycurl.version_info() → tuple

Returns a 12-tuple with the version info.

Corresponds to curl_version_info in libcurl. Returns a tuple of information which is similar to the curl_version_info_data struct returned by curl_version_info() in libcurl.

Example usage:

>>> import pycurl
>>> pycurl.version_info()
(3, '7.33.0', 467200, 'amd64-portbld-freebsd9.1', 33436, 'OpenSSL/0.9.8x',
0, '1.2.7', ('dict', 'file', 'ftp', 'ftps', 'gopher', 'http', 'https',
'imap', 'imaps', 'pop3', 'pop3s', 'rtsp', 'smtp', 'smtps', 'telnet',
'tftp'), None, 0, None)

class pycurl.Curl → New Curl object

Creates a new Curl Object which corresponds to a CURL handle in libcurl. Curl objects automatically set CURLOPT_VERBOSE to 0, CURLOPT_NOPROGRESS to 1, provide a default CURLOPT_USERAGENT and setup CURLOPT_ERRORBUFFER to point to a private error buffer.

Implicitly calls pycurl.global_init() if the latter has not yet been called.

class pycurl.CurlMulti → New CurlMulti object

Creates a new CurlMulti Object which corresponds to a CURLM handle in libcurl.

class pycurl.CurlShare → New CurlShare object

Creates a new CurlShare Object which corresponds to a CURLSH handle in libcurl. CurlShare objects is what you pass as an argument to the SHARE option on Curl objects.