If you're using Twisted (or Tornado, ugh) then there are builtin HTTP clients which are async in all the right ways and provide similar high-level APIs for maki

If you're using Twisted (or Tornado, ugh) then there are builtin HTTP clients which are async in all the right ways and provide similar high-level APIs for making requests. If you're using gevent, then this is what you want. If you're using eventlet, you should switch to gevent or learn Twisted. So yeah, this is suboptimal, but not the worst thing in the world. It should really be documented though.