Re:I Forked Httpx
by zahlman on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @01:40PM
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> but it would be a huge undertaking for the core devs.
More importantly, it would be massively breaking to remove the existing functionality (and everyone would ignore a deprecation), and confusing not to (much like it was when 2.x had both "urllib" and "urllib2").
It'd be nice to have something high level in the standard library based on urllib primitives. Offering competition to those, not so much.
More importantly, it would be massively breaking to remove the existing functionality (and everyone would ignore a deprecation), and confusing not to (much like it was when 2.x had both "urllib" and "urllib2").
It'd be nice to have something high level in the standard library based on urllib primitives. Offering competition to those, not so much.