Response¶

The response module includes the Response class, and a number of utilities.

Response¶

class Response(content='', status_code=STATUS.OK, content_type='text/html')¶

encoding¶

status_message¶

headers¶: A dict of HTTP headers

cookies¶: A SimpleCookie container for resposne cookies.

add_cookie(key, value, **kwargs)¶

Add a cookie to the response.

If only key and value are passed, then dict access to self.cookies is used. Otherwise, a Morsel is instanciated, and the key, value and kwargs passed to its set method. Then it’s added to the cookies container.

status¶: A helper to return the status code and message as a single string.

Response sub-classes¶

Additionally, there is a sub-class of Response for each HTTP Status code.

STATUS_CODES¶

A tuple of two-tuples, each of (status code, status message)

STATUS¶

An OrderedDict sub-class constructed from STATUS_CODES.

Additionally, the status codes can be accessed by name.

For example:

>>> STATUS.OK
200

>>> STATUS[200]
'OK'