It all depends. For a quick script that I can write in 15 mins that uses an HTTP client, JSON and joins two APIs together, the standard library is OK. To be fa

It all depends. For a quick script that I can write in 15 mins that uses an HTTP client, JSON and joins two APIs together, the standard library is OK. To be fair, it could be almost a bash script (using curl and jq or something like that), but I'm more comfortable with Python. So for one-off (or almost one-off) scripts, the standard library is worth avoiding dealing with dependencies.