Example of using object PATCH request in Swift

gistfile1.py

def truncateObject(apitoken, swifturl, container, object, size):
    url = swifturl[1]
    body=""
    headers = { "X-Auth-Token":apitoken, "Content-type":"application/json-patch",
                "x-patch-offset":0, "x-new-size":size, "Content-Length":0 
              }
    conn = httplib.HTTPConnection(url)
    conn.request("PATCH", "%s/%s/%s" % (swifturl[2],container,object), body, headers)    
    
    response = conn.getresponse()
    cleanResponseOrRaise(response)
    
    data = response.read()
    conn.close()
    return data 

def patchObjectData(apitoken, swifturl, container, object, offset, data):
    url = swifturl[1]
    body=data
    headers = { "X-Auth-Token":apitoken, "Content-type":"application/octet-stream",
                "x-patch-offset":offset, "Content-Length":str(len(data))
              }
    conn = httplib.HTTPConnection(url)
    conn.request("PATCH", "%s/%s/%s" % (swifturl[2],container,object), body, headers)    
    
    response = conn.getresponse()
    cleanResponseOrRaise(response)
    
    data = response.read()
    conn.close()
    return data