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> Nowadays it’s easy to use the requests module to write webhook tasks manually. We would love to use requests but we are simply unable to as there’s a very voc
by cwyers 10y ago
> Nowadays it’s easy to use the requests module to write webhook tasks manually. We would love to use requests but we are simply unable to as there’s a very vocal ‘anti-dependency’ mob in the Python community
I'm not a heavy Python user, and I've never heard this before. It sounds... less than good.
- gtaylor 10y agoIt's not universal. I'd rather bring in a dependency than reinvent the wheel. requests is used so widely that I'm surprised to see this raised as an issue.
- ryankask 10y agoThe author may be referring to libraries themselves having dependencies. These attitudes are changing. For example, last week the Django community published a draft proposal that declares that "Django can have dependencies". The "Background" section is a good read and helps explain the origins of these attitudes: https://github.com/django/deps/blob/master/draft/0007-dependency-policy.rst#background-and-motivation https://github.com/django/deps/blob/master/draft/0007-depend....