Replaced my use of Stripe's Python API with this

stripe.py

import httplib

import base64
import contextlib
import simplejson
import urllib

from django.conf import settings

def stripe_fetch(resource, method='GET', params=None, secret=settings.STRIPE_SECRET, prefix='/v1'):
    headers = {
        'Accept': 'application/json',
        'User-Agent': 'Clutch 1.0',
        'Authorization': 'Basic %s' % (base64.b64encode('%s:' % (secret,)),),
    }
    if params:
        flattened = {}
        for key, val in params.iteritems():
            if getattr(val, 'iteritems', None) is not None:
                for sub_key, sub_val in val.iteritems():
                    flattened['%s[%s]' % (key, sub_key)] = sub_val
            else:
                flattened[key] = val
        body = urllib.urlencode(flattened)
    else:
        body = ''
    with contextlib.closing(httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.stripe.com')) as conn:
        conn.request(method, prefix + resource, body, headers)
        raw_data = conn.getresponse().read()
    return simplejson.loads(raw_data)

whats wrong with the client lib?

It gives me back these weird objects that are hard to use and are largely undefined. I just want the (decoded) JSON that the API returns.

Also, their client lib wildly abuses global state.

import stripe
stripe.api_key = 'my_key'

No thanks!

ic, makes sense

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On Tuesday, March 20, 2012 at 11:31 PM, Eric Florenzano wrote: Also, their client lib wildly abuses global state. import stripe stripe.api_key = 'my_key' No thanks! --- Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://gist.github.com/2142891