Proxies with Python 'Requests' module

Question

Just a short, simple one about the excellent Requests module for Python.

I can\'t seem to find in the documentation what the variable \'proxies\' should contain. Whe

Answer 1

The accepted answer was a good start for me, but I kept getting the following error:

AssertionError: Not supported proxy scheme None

Fix to this was to specify the http:// in the proxy url thus:

http_proxy  = "http://194.62.145.248:8080"
https_proxy  = "https://194.62.145.248:8080"
ftp_proxy   = "10.10.1.10:3128"

proxyDict = {
              "http"  : http_proxy,
              "https" : https_proxy,
              "ftp"   : ftp_proxy
            }

I'd be interested as to why the original works for some people but not me.

Edit: I see the main answer is now updated to reflect this :)