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A comment on Celery 4.0.

Re:Celery 4.0 by cwyers on Sunday November 13, 2016 @12:11AM (#12941966)
> Nowadays it’s easy to use the requests module to write webhook tasks manually. We would love to use requests but we are simply unable to as there’s a very vocal ‘anti-dependency’ mob in the Python community

I'm not a heavy Python user, and I've never heard this before. It sounds... less than good.

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Re:Celery 4.0 by ryankask on Sunday November 13, 2016 @04:25AM (#12942551)
The author may be referring to libraries themselves having dependencies. These attitudes are changing. For example, last week the Django community published a draft proposal that declares that "Django can have dependencies". The "Background" section is a good read and helps explain the origins of these attitudes: https://github.com/django/deps/blob/master/draft/0007-depend....
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Re:Celery 4.0 by gtaylor on Sunday November 13, 2016 @01:23AM (#12942136)
It's not universal. I'd rather bring in a dependency than reinvent the wheel.

requests is used so widely that I'm surprised to see this raised as an issue.

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