I could never understand why people insist on using requests rather than the stdlib (which works just fine). When async became a thing, I remember hitting some

I could never understand why people insist on using requests rather than the stdlib (which works just fine). When async became a thing, I remember hitting some bug in aiohttp so I wrote myself a tiny (just doing the bit I needed) HTTP async client, which I figured was easier than wrestling aiohttp into compliance. These days aiohttp is quite nice for async, and for sync I just use the stdlib. My async client, if it can be of interest https://github.com/ltworf/localslackirc/blob/master/slackclient/http.py https://github.com/ltworf/localslackirc/blob/master/slackcli...