Update utils.py

Author: Spaceenter

datacommons/utils.py

@@ -80,11 +80,10 @@ def set_api_key(api_key):
 
 
 def _send_request(req_url, req_json={}, compress=False, post=True):
-  """ Sends a POST request to the given req_url with the given req_json.
+  """ Sends a POST/GET request to req_url with req_json, default to POST.
 
   Returns:
-    The payload returned by sending the POST request formatted as a Python
-    dict.
+    The payload returned by sending the POST/GET request formatted as a dict.
   """
   # Get the API key
   if not os.environ.get(_ENV_VAR_API_KEY, None):
@@ -139,4 +138,4 @@ def _format_expand_payload(payload, new_key, must_exist=[]):
   # Ensure all dcids in must_exist have some entry in results.
   for dcid in must_exist:
     results[dcid]
-  return {k: sorted(list(v)) for k, v in results.items()}
+  return {k: sorted(list(v)) for k, v in results.items()}