[Felk]

httpx makes a pretty good first impression on me. The homepage provides examples, key selling points, install instructions, and links to any further reading one could hope for. However, I am missing one thing: The features this offers over the popular requests library do not seem to require httpx to be a competitor, but an extension or fork. There surely must be some major incompatibilities that allowed this library to do something fundamentally different, right?

[takeda]

from comments here, two already big ones (for me) is type annotation and async support.

Will need to check how it compares with aiohttp which is quite good and also has these.

[kissgyorgy]

> The features this offers over the popular requests library do not seem to require httpx to be a competitor

Yes it has to be. Requests is not as great as everyone thinks it is. It's API is simple, sure, but when you need more advanced features (doesn't even support HTTP/2 AFAIK) like timeouts, proper exception handling (which you cannot do in requests)) it actually sucks.

httpx is a far superior library already!