.delete()
The .delete()
method sends a DELETE
request to a web server; it returns a response object.
Syntax
import requests
requests.delete("url", **kwargs)
**kwargs
are any number of dictionary items (named arguments) that are passed in as parameters. The .delete()
method can take in various parameters that allow a user to communicate additional information to the web server (the content type that should be returned, the user’s authentication, etc.). They can also be used to include cookies in the request, set proxies, set user-agents, or set a page timeout.
Example
The .delete()
method sends a request to delete data from a web server. The response object it returns contains various types of data such as the webpage text, status code, and the reason for that response.
import requestsresponse = requests.delete("https://httpbin.org/delete")print(f"{response.status_code}: {response.reason}")
The following output will look like this:
200: OK
Codebyte Example
Common response codes for a DELETE
request including the following:
405
: The method is not allowed.200
: The action has been enacted and a response message describes the status.202
: The action is pending.204
: The action has been enacted but there is no further information beyond that.
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