get_version: use openurl in place of requests.get.

Note that this will handle errors (e.g. a file that does not exist) and raise an exception, rather than trying to parse the error document.

Author: Benjamin Moody

wfdb/io/record.py

@@ -1245,8 +1245,9 @@ def get_version(pn_dir):
  """
  db_dir = pn_dir.split('/')[0]
  url = posixpath.join(download.PN_CONTENT_URL, db_dir) + '/'
- response = requests.get(url)
- contents = [line.decode('utf-8').strip() for line in response.content.splitlines()]
+ with _url.openurl(url, 'rb') as f:
+ content = f.read()
+ contents = [line.decode('utf-8').strip() for line in content.splitlines()]
  version_number = [v for v in contents if 'Version:' in v]
  version_number = version_number[0].split(':')[-1].strip().split('<')[0]