Consider replacing requests

[mahmoudhossam]

Requests has been the default suggestion for a python http client library, however it is starting to show its age.

I suggest replacing it in this guide with one of the alternatives, httpx

It is a drop-in replacement for requests, and it also adds async support among other things.

[cjolowicz]

Agreed :) I'm working on the next version of the blog, and it does feature httpx instead of requests.

[wanderrful]

Out of curiosity, what do we get by using httpx over requests?

[mahmoudhossam]

The ability to make async requests.

Requests is synchronous by default, to make async requests you can either wrap it or use a requests plugin.