I'll throw urllib3 into the hat: https://github.com/shazow/urllib3 https://github.com/shazow/urllib3 -> https://urllib3.readthedocs.org/ https://urllib3.readth

I'll throw urllib3 into the hat: https://github.com/shazow/urllib3 https://github.com/shazow/urllib3 -> https://urllib3.readthedocs.org/ https://urllib3.readthedocs.org/ There are tons of use cases and recipes littered in the Github issues and StackOverflow answers that need to make it into the official docs. Really there should be examples for how to do anything that another http library like Requests documents how to do. That said, I'd suggest your friend starts with a project she has an affinity for. Perhaps she has used it before, or plans to use it in the future.