As discussed in #70, requests provides a more uniform, nice, and reliable interface for the modern interwebs. One goal when refactoring should be to use requests in place of the built-ins.
As @astrofrog notes, though, we will continue to use get_readable_fileobj because of its caching and progressbar capabilities.
TODO: adapt these packages that currently import urllib and /or urllib2:
As discussed in #70, requests provides a more uniform, nice, and reliable interface for the modern interwebs. One goal when refactoring should be to use requests in place of the built-ins.
As @astrofrog notes, though, we will continue to use
get_readable_fileobjbecause of its caching and progressbar capabilities.TODO: adapt these packages that currently import
urlliband /orurllib2: