[kibwen]

> everyone uses Requests in Python

I love Requests, but this statement overreaches. All of my Python these days is simple scripting, and in those simple cases the hassle of adding a dependency outweighs the utility that Requests provides over the standard library. And I'd say Requests is even a special case here in that it's widely known and acknowledged; while I wager you can find superior third-party replacements to the Python standard library if you look for them, the fact that you don't need to look for them at all (and audit them, ideally!) is what makes a batteries-included language so convenient even in the presence of a sub-par stdlib.

[ploxiln]

yup, I've used stdlib urlopen in an assortment of scripts, it works, even with python2/python3 cross compatibility:

    if sys.version_info[0] == 2:
        from urllib2 import urlopen, Request  # python2
    else:
        from urllib.request import urlopen, Request  # python3