Using PUT in urllib2

resnet-test.py

#!/usr/bin/python

import urllib2
import json

apikey = ''
user = ''
baseurl = ''

query_enable = { 'is_enabled' : True }
query_disable = { 'is_enabled' : False, 'disabled_reason' : "infringement3" }
url = baseurl + user + "?key=" + apikey

json_data = json.dumps(query_disable)

opener = urllib2.build_opener(urllib2.HTTPHandler)
request = urllib2.Request(url, data=json_data)
request.add_header('Content-Type', 'application/json')
request.get_method = lambda: 'PUT'
url = opener.open(request)

print url.read()

Thanks for that... Here it is with Basic Auth as well for to PUT JSON. The encodestring() variable may be outdated but your answer helped me on an old server with only Python 2.6 and no option to install requests.

from base64 import encodestring

def put_auth(self, url, username, password, data):
        opener = urllib2.build_opener(urllib2.HTTPHandler)
        req = urllib2.Request(url, data=json.dumps(data))
        auth_header = encodestring("%s:%s" % (u, p))[:-1]
        req.add_header('Content-Type', 'application/json')
        req.add_header('Authorization', 'Basic ' + auth_header)
        req.get_method = lambda: 'PUT'
        request = opener.open(req)
        self.status_code = request.getcode()
        return request.read()

Hello guys, could you please explain why we're using lamda here for get_method()?
Thanks!