Py3 Request maker

sendReq.py

import urllib.parse as parse
import urllib.request as request
import http.client as client

#Force connections to the previous HTTP 1.0 standard as this is faster with chunked responses, which is typically what you'll get
client.HTTPConnection._http_vsn= 10
client.HTTPConnection._http_vsn_str='HTTP/1.0'


def sendReq(url, qDict=None, headers=None):
    """Robust request maker"""
    #Need to handle chunked response / incomplete reads. 2 solutions here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14442222/how-to-handle-incompleteread-in-python
    #This function sends a request and handles incomplete reads. However its found to be very slow. It adds 30 seconds to chunked
    #responses. Forcing the connection to HTTP 10 (1.0) at the top, for some reason makes it faster.         
    
    qData = parse.urlencode(qDict).encode('UTF-8') if qDict else None    
    reqObj = request.Request(url)
    
    if headers != None:
        for k, v in headers.items():
            reqObj.add_header(k, v)
            
    try:
        if qDict == None:  #GET            
            r = request.urlopen(reqObj)
        else:  #POST            
            r = request.urlopen(reqObj, qData)
        responseJSON=""
        while True:
            try:                            
                responseJSONpart = r.read()                
            except client.IncompleteRead as icread:                
                responseJSON = responseJSON + icread.partial.decode('utf-8')
                continue
            else:                
                responseJSON = responseJSON + responseJSONpart.decode('utf-8')
                break       
        
        return (json.loads(responseJSON))
       
    except Exception as RESTex:
        print("Exception occurred making REST call: " + RESTex.__str__())