The Python standard library is overall very solid. However, it has a few darker corners - and, in the past, HTTP handling was not as easy as it could be. In the

The Python standard library is overall very solid. However, it has a few darker corners - and, in the past, HTTP handling was not as easy as it could be. In the age of APIs, the requests library filled this void with a compellingly simple solution and became one of the most popular libraries (with millions of downloads every month [1]). [1] https://pypi.python.org/pypi/requests https://pypi.python.org/pypi/requests