Merge pull request #1302 from ssbarnea/master

Documents the actual logging methods #1297

.gitignore

@@ -7,10 +7,12 @@ pylint.txt
 toy.py
 violations.pyflakes.txt
 cover/
+build/
 docs/_build
 requests.egg-info/
 *.pyc
 *.swp
+*.egg
 env/
 
 .workon

docs/api.rst

@@ -165,9 +165,23 @@ API Changes
 
   ::
 
-      # Verbosity should now be configured with logging
-      my_config = {'verbose': sys.stderr}
-      requests.get('http://httpbin.org/headers', config=my_config)  # bad!
+      import requests
+      import logging
+
+      # these two lines enable debugging at httplib level (requests->urllib3->httplib)
+      # you will see the REQUEST, including HEADERS and DATA, and RESPONSE with HEADERS but without DATA.
+      # the only thing missing will be the response.body which is not logged.
+      import httplib
+      httplib.HTTPConnection.debuglevel = 1
+      
+      logging.basicConfig() # you need to initialize logging, otherwise you will not see anything from requests
+      logging.getLogger().setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
+      requests_log = logging.getLogger("requests.packages.urllib3")
+      requests_log.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
+      requests_log.propagate = True
+      
+      requests.get('http://httpbin.org/headers')
+
 
 
 Licensing

setup.py

@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@
     package_dir={'requests': 'requests'},
     include_package_data=True,
     install_requires=requires,
+    setup_requires=['sphinx'],
     license=open('LICENSE').read(),
     zip_safe=False,
     classifiers=(