> ## Documentation Index
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# Best practice

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  <Accordion title="use-timeout">
    Detected a 'requests' call without a timeout set. By default, 'requests' calls wait until the connection is closed. This means a 'requests' call without a timeout will hang the program if a response is never received. Consider setting a timeout for all 'requests'.
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  <Accordion title="use-raise-for-status">
    There's an HTTP request made with requests, but the raise\_for\_status() utility method isn't used. This can result in request errors going unnoticed and your code behaving in unexpected ways, such as if your authorization API returns a 500 error while you're only checking for a 401.
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  <Accordion title="python.requests.best-practice.use-request-json-shortcut">
    The requests library has a convenient shortcut for sending JSON requests, which lets you stop worrying about serializing the body yourself. To use it, replace `body=json.dumps(...)` with `json=...`.
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  <Accordion title="python.requests.best-practice.use-response-json-shortcut">
    The requests library has a convenient shortcut for reading JSON responses, which lets you stop worrying about deserializing the response yourself.
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