one function simple requests for Python

requests.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
# coding: utf-8

import urllib
import urllib2


def _request(path, params=None, method='GET', data=None, headers=None):
    params = params or {}
    headers = headers or {}
    if params:
        url = path + '?' + urllib.urlencode(params)
    else:
        url = path
    
    request = urllib2.Request(url, data, headers)
    request.get_method = lambda: method
    response = urllib2.urlopen(request)
    return response.read()

# usage:

_request(path='http://www.google.com', {'a': 'A'}, method='GET', headers={'User-Agent': 'Browser'})