How to set PROXIES for requests?

I was looking for a way to set proxy in order to make requests. At the moment I’ve patched base backend:

proxies = getattr(settings, 'SOCIAL_SERVICES_PROXIES', {})
old_request = BaseAuth.request

@wraps(old_request)
def new_request(self, url, method='GET', *args, **kwargs):
    '''
    COPY-PASTE from social_core.backends.base import BaseAuth
    with proxy support
    '''
    kwargs.setdefault('headers', {})
    if self.setting('VERIFY_SSL') is not None:
        kwargs.setdefault('verify', self.setting('VERIFY_SSL'))
    kwargs.setdefault('timeout', self.setting('REQUESTS_TIMEOUT') or self.setting('URLOPEN_TIMEOUT'))
    if self.SEND_USER_AGENT and 'User-Agent' not in kwargs['headers']:
        kwargs['headers']['User-Agent'] = self.setting('USER_AGENT') or user_agent()

    kwargs.setdefault('proxies', proxies)  # main line

    try:
        if self.SSL_PROTOCOL:
            session = SSLHttpAdapter.ssl_adapter_session(self.SSL_PROTOCOL)
            response = session.request(method, url, *args, **kwargs)
        else:
            response = request(method, url, *args, **kwargs)
    except ConnectionError as err:
        LOG.info(str(kwargs))
        LOG.error(str(err))
        raise AuthFailed(self, str(err))
    response.raise_for_status()
    return response

BaseAuth.request = new_request

Is there a better way to do that?

[POD666]

@msadig Usually I create ‘adapters’ app for such purposes. Then I define AppConfig for each 3rd party lib patching and import exect patch in ready method. So I can include those apps in a right place in INSTALLED_APPS.

adapters/
    __init__.py
    apps.py
    patch_social_auth.py  # contains that code inside `def patch():`
    patch_something_other.py  # something other


# adapters/apps.py
from django.apps.config import AppConfig
from .patch_social_auth import patch as patch_social_auth
from .patch_something_other import patch as patch_something_other

class AddProxySupport(AppConfig):
    verbose_name = "Add proxy support "
    def ready(self):
        patch_social_auth()
...

# myproject/settings.py
INSTALLED_APPS = [
    # ...
    'adapters.apps.AddProxySupport',
    # ...
]

[bd808]

A SOCIAL_AUTH_PROXIES config var seems to have been quietly added for this use case in 25ed3b6242e89f644b3d4a4d235496905b4bc9c1 as part of the 3.4.0 release.