A backport of the urllib.request.MethodRequest class from Python 3.4 which allows overriding of the method in a class attribute or as a keyword parameter to the initializer.
See Python 18978 for details.
Works on Python 2.6 and later.
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Use method_request.Request in place of urllib.request.Request:
from backports.method_request import Request req = Request(..., method='PATCH') resp = urllib.request.urlopen(req) ...