[jordic]

The huge win against requests is that Https is fully async.. you can download 20 files in parallel without not too much effort. Throughout in python asyncio is amazing, something similar to node or perhaps better... That's the main point.

[westurner]

FWIW, requests3 has "Type-annotations for all public-facing APIs", asyncio, HTTP/2, connection pooling, timeouts, etc https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests3

[ehsankia]

Relevant blog and discussion:

https://vorpus.org/blog/why-im-not-collaborating-with-kennet...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19826680

[jordic]

Sorry, have you checked the source? Are these features there or only announced? Has requests added a timeout by default finally?

[westurner]

It looks like requests is now owned by PSF. https://github.com/psf/requests

But IDK why requests3 wasn't transferred as well, and why issues appear to be disabled on the repo now.

The docs reference a timeout arg (that appears to default to the socket default timeout) for connect and/or read https://3.python-requests.org/user/advanced/#timeouts

And the tests reference a timeout argument. If that doesn't work, I wonder how much work it would be to send a PR (instead of just talking s to Ken and not contributing any code)

[jordic]

>But IDK why requests3 wasn't transferred as well, and

That's thing... Who knows..

[westurner]

TIL requests3 beta works with httpx as a backend: https://github.com/not-kennethreitz/team/issues/21#issuecomm...

If requests3 is installed, `import requests' imports requests3