Note: I\'m not trying to provide a RESTful api, I\'m trying to call one.
def index( request, *args, **kwargs ):
context = {}
context[\'some_json\'] =
Use the requests library. Here is some discussion on it and I did a talk on "Consuming Web APIs with Python" at PyOhio that you might find interesting or helpful
“RESTful call” in practice just means making an HTTP request. There are a couple of built-in modules in Python that let you do this:
Then there are 3rd-party modules, like the one mentioned by @Issac (which, based on my very limited experience with urllib2 and httplib, looks much better than them for your purposes).
Slumber is a RESTful data connector that can be used to make proper RESTful data services from Django systems.
https://github.com/KayEss/django-slumber