[enriquepablo]

Requests is or has been the most downloaded egg from pypi. If you have used it, you'll know why: it makes dealing with http requests a pure pleasure. Dead easy to remember how to use it, and dead easy to read it. So discouraging this kind of library seems misguided.

[_ZeD_]

But you really use all the polymorfic alternatives the library gives you? I expect the 90% are just simple cases, and the rest can be factored out in specific API