From a91ac242f3616d3051f2ba28a81d6fc637c58a7c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kenneth Reitz <me@kennethreitz.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2011 01:51:26 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] simplify api.request

---
 requests/api.py | 34 ++--------------------------------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-)

diff --git a/requests/api.py b/requests/api.py
index 066d4287ee..aae4afc887 100644
--- a/requests/api.py
+++ b/requests/api.py
@@ -13,21 +13,7 @@
 
 from . import sessions
 
-def request(method, url,
-    params=None,
-    data=None,
-    headers=None,
-    cookies=None,
-    files=None,
-    auth=None,
-    timeout=None,
-    allow_redirects=False,
-    proxies=None,
-    hooks=None,
-    return_response=True,
-    prefetch=False,
-    session=None,
-    config=None):
+def request(method, url, **kwargs):
     """Constructs and sends a :class:`Request <Request>`.
     Returns :class:`Response <Response>` object.
 
@@ -48,23 +34,7 @@ def request(method, url,
     """
 
     s = session or sessions.session()
-    return s.request(
-        method=method,
-        url=url,
-        params=params,
-        data=data,
-        headers=headers,
-        cookies=cookies,
-        files=files,
-        auth=auth,
-        timeout=timeout,
-        allow_redirects=allow_redirects,
-        proxies=proxies,
-        hooks=hooks,
-        return_response=return_response,
-        config=config,
-        prefetch=prefetch
-    )
+    return s.request(method=method, url=url, **kwargs)