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by florimondmanca 2418 days ago
Python HTTPX co-maintainer here: AFAIK, Ruby's HTTPX did not inspire Python's HTTPX.

Eg. the name came from a totally unrelated discussion, and research did not yield results about Ruby's counterpart back then [0].

In fact, Python HTTPX started with requests-async [1], which was then spun up into httpcore, which was then renamed to http3, and finally HTTPX.

Still very funny to me that these two projects (Python HTTPX and Ruby HTTPX) have so much in common: HTTP/2 support, API compatibility with the current de-facto HTTP library of the language, etc.

[0]: https://github.com/python-http/discussions/issues/1#issuecom...

[1]: https://github.com/encode/requests-async
2 comments
uranusjr 2418 days ago
LOL I was almost posted a ref to HTTPX until I saw this thread :p Thank you for HTTPX. I only learnt about it recently, but it’s now my go-to tool moving forward. Excellent work!
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chucke 2418 days ago
True, there are indeed a lot of common goals, and even features. Even our debug flag (HTTPX_DEBUG) is the same. Is that a python pattern?

Good luck in our work!

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