[bigstrat2003]

And yet, there are times where all I've had access to was the stdlib. I was damn glad for urllib2 at those times. It's worth it to have a batteries included stdlib, even if parts of it don't wind up being the most commonly used by the community.

[yawaramin]

The fact that there is a 'urllib2' implies that there's a 'urllib', which tells us something pretty important about the dangers of kitchen-sink standard libraries.