[bodyfour]

stdlib is also where things go to get used, though.

Coding against a pile of external python modules is perfectly reasonable when you're building something "app scale" -- i.e. something that is going to be spread across many files and installed in a container or venv.

However, when writing something at "script scale" I just don't want to deal with all of that. I want to write something that I can deploy as a single file and not end up dealing with missing python dependencies every time. This means I'm using the old urllib and such more often than I'd like.

It's a shame that there doesn't seem to be much flow of functionality into stdlib at all any more. For my needs, I wish "requests" and "yaml" were in that set, although I'm sure other people have their own opinions on that.