title: Proxies in Python Requests
body: <p>So I used Proxy Broker to scrape some proxies. Sometimes the proxies are dead when scraped so I wanted to check them before I used them. So I wrote a program using Python Requests to check them. Here it is: </p>
  
  <pre><code>import time
  import random
  import requests
  lines = open('not_checked.txt').read().splitlines()
  check =random.choice(lines)
  yaya = {
    check
  }
  for x in range(0 , 10):
      requests.get('https://reg.ebay.com/reg/PartialReg?ru=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2F': proxies=yaya)
      r.status_code
      print(status_code)
  
      if status_code == 200:
          f=open("checked_proxies.txt", "a+")
          f.write(proxies)
      else:
         time.sleep(.001)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>However this throws back the "set object has no attribute get". I looked the error up online and the it said it is because I used a comma instead of a colon. So then I tried:</p>
  
  <pre><code>requests.get('https://reg.ebay.com/reg/PartialReg?ru=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2F': proxies=yaya)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>to get a syntax error. What is going on? </p>