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>[...] the standard library is about as complete as you can get (and probably better than the classical scripting languages — all of Ruby/Python/Perl missed a good API for some things like HTTP, which led to the rise of separate packages like Faraday/Requests/etc)

What? Rust basically has no standard library. At least Python doesn't require pulling in third-party libraries to do globbing, create a zip/tar, create a tempfile or send/serve http. Hell, it doesn't even do command-line arguments outside of manually parsing and iterating over the args vector.

Admittedly they did ship a lot out of core outright, but a single line in `Cargo.toml` fetches any of these things pretty expediently, and they're still well standardized across the ecosystem.

    zip = "0.2"
    tempfile = "2.1.4"
    getopts = "0.2"
    hyper = "0.9.12"

it sort of does, though. Trying to use urllib2 is like pulling teeth

Which is why you use httplib[1] for sending HTTP requests.

    >>> import httplib, json
    >>> conn = httplib.HTTPConnection("httpbin.org")
    >>> conn.request("GET", "/get")
    >>> res = conn.getresponse()
    >>> print res.status, res.reason
    200 OK
    >>> data = json.load(res)
    >>> print data
    {u'origin': '0.0.0.0', ...}
    >>> conn.close()

[1] https://docs.python.org/2.7/library/httplib.html#examples

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