Loosen requirement for requests to 2.0 or higher

Author: Daniel Jones

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -5,6 +5,16 @@ The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/),
 and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).
 
 
+## [Unreleased]
+### Added
+### Changed
+* Loosen requirement for requests to 2.0 or higher. 
+### Deprecated
+### Fixed
+### Removed
+### Security
+
+
 ## [1.1.2] - 2021-09-21
 ### Changed
 * Improve request exception messages and include exception stacktraces.
@@ -66,6 +76,7 @@ Version increased to avoid conflicts with old packages on PyPI.
 Initial version.
 
 
+[Unreleased]: https://github.com/DeepLcom/deepl-python/compare/v1.1.2...HEAD
 [1.1.2]: https://github.com/DeepLcom/deepl-python/compare/v1.1.1...v1.1.2
 [1.1.1]: https://github.com/DeepLcom/deepl-python/compare/v1.1.0...v1.1.1
 [1.1.0]: https://github.com/DeepLcom/deepl-python/compare/v1.0.1...v1.1.0

README.md

@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ poetry install
 ### Requirements
 The library is tested with Python versions 3.6 to 3.9. 
 
-The `requests` module is used to perform HTTP requests; the minimum is version 2.18.
+The `requests` module is used to perform HTTP requests; the minimum is version 2.0.
 
 ## Usage
 

deepl/http_client.py

@@ -131,11 +131,14 @@ def request(
                 return response.status_code, response
 
             else:
-                with self._session.request(
+                response = self._session.request(
                     method, url, data=data, timeout=timeout, **kwargs
-                ) as response:
+                )
+                try:
                     response.encoding = "UTF-8"
                     return response.status_code, response.text
+                finally:
+                    response.close()
 
         except requests.exceptions.ConnectionError as e:
             message = f"Connection failed: {e}"

pyproject.toml

@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ fail_under = 70
 
 [tool.poetry.dependencies]
 python = ">=3.6.2,<4"
-requests = "^2.18"
+requests = "^2"
 
 [tool.poetry.dev-dependencies]
 black = "^21.4b2"