Although Requests looks very nice, I've wondered why most people wouldn't simply use pycurl - http://pycurl.sourceforge.net/ http://pycurl.sourceforge.net/ ? It

Although Requests looks very nice, I've wondered why most people wouldn't simply use pycurl - http://pycurl.sourceforge.net/ http://pycurl.sourceforge.net/ ? It's stable and you get all the power that cURL has (which is a lot), and the API is fairly simple - although maybe not as pythonic as the Requests API is. On a side note: last time I checked urllib2 (which actually drives Requests) could not do SSL requests over a proxy, which gave me the feeling that this implementation still isn't very mature.