> Exactly how famous is this library? It is the de-facto standard for anything that has to interact with a API, or just HTTP in general. The old way to do thes

> Exactly how famous is this library? It is the de-facto standard for anything that has to interact with a API, or just HTTP in general. The old way to do these sort of things was the urllib2 module (part of the Python standard library). urllib2 has some design flaws and can be a pain to work with.