You still need to learn to use the library you picked, even if it’s part of stdlib. Python has two HTTP libraries in stdlib, http.client and urllib.request. The

You still need to learn to use the library you picked, even if it’s part of stdlib. Python has two HTTP libraries in stdlib, http.client and urllib.request. The former is low-level, and the latter has a fairly complicated API. Learning to use them will take much longer than just giving in and picking Requests. The stdlib docs will tell you to use Requests. Everyone on the Internet will tell you to use Requests. Any questions you might have for http.client/urllib.request will be answered by “use Requests”.