PycURL is a Python interface to libcurl. PycURL can be used to fetch objects identified by a URL from a Python program, similar to the urllib Python module. PycURL is mature, very fast, and supports a lot of features.

• libcurl is a free and easy-to-use client-side URL transfer library, supporting FTP, FTPS, HTTP, HTTPS, SCP, SFTP, TFTP, TELNET, DICT, LDAP, LDAPS, FILE, IMAP, SMTP, POP3 and RTSP. libcurl supports SSL certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP uploading, HTTP form based upload, proxies, cookies, user+password authentication (Basic, Digest, NTLM, Negotiate, Kerberos4), file transfer resume, http proxy tunneling and more!
• libcurl is highly portable, it builds and works identically on numerous platforms, including Solaris, NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Darwin, HPUX, IRIX, AIX, Tru64, Linux, UnixWare, HURD, Windows, Amiga, OS/2, BeOs, Mac OS X, Ultrix, QNX, OpenVMS, RISC OS, Novell NetWare, DOS and more...
• libcurl is free, thread-safe, IPv6 compatible, feature rich, well supported, fast, thoroughly documented and is already used by many known, big and successful companies and numerous applications.

You can install the most recent PycURL version using easy_install:

easy_install pycurl

or pip:

pip install pycurl

PycURL comes with an automated test suite. To run the tests, execute:

make test

Some tests use vsftpd configured to accept anonymous uploads. These tests are not run by default. As configured, vsftpd will allow reads and writes to anything the user running the tests has read and write access. To run vsftpd tests you must explicitly set PYCURL_VSFTPD_PATH variable like so:

# use vsftpd in PATH
export PYCURL_VSFTPD_PATH=vsftpd

# specify full path to vsftpd
export PYCURL_VSFTPD_PATH=/usr/local/libexec/vsftpd

For smaller changes:

1. Fork the repository on Github.
2. Create a branch off master.
3. Make your changes.
4. Write a test which shows that the bug was fixed or that the feature works as expected.
5. Send a pull request.

For larger changes:

1. Join the mailing list.
2. Discuss your proposal on the mailing list.
3. When consensus is reached, implement it as described above.

Copyright (C) 2001-2008 by Kjetil Jacobsen <kjetilja at gmail.com>
Copyright (C) 2001-2008 by Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer <markus at oberhumer.com>

All rights reserved.

PycURL is dual licensed under the LGPL and an MIT/X derivative license
based on the cURL license.  A full copy of the LGPL license is included
in the file COPYING.  A full copy of the MIT/X derivative license is
included in the file COPYING2.  You can redistribute and/or modify PycURL
according to the terms of either license.