The name isn't straightforward, is it? :) The project name "urllib3" is an unfortunate joke on "urllib" and "urllib2" in the standard library, since it's made t

The name isn't straightforward, is it? :) The project name "urllib3" is an unfortunate joke on "urllib" and "urllib2" in the standard library, since it's made to supersede both of those modules in functionality. The original author of the package likely didn't know it'd grow to be the most downloaded package at the time!