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Httpx is nice because it can be used to easily perform asynchronous requests. I imagine that's one of the reasons it got picked here.

Thanks for your comment! httpx supports both synchronous and asynchronous, which is very useful! Very useful tool.

I don't know why you would ever use requests unless you are a gevent user.

Requests works just fine for 99% of use cases and is much more prevalent, meaning it has a lot more hits on Google if you’re debugging something. Not saying it’s better, just sufficient for most use cases.

Worse is better, as they say :)