Requests has been dead for over a decade. It doesn’t support HTTP/2, it doesn’t support HTTP/3, it doesn’t support async, and they ignore security vulnerabilities for months.

Nobody should use requests. If you are still using it, the quickest way to get off it is to switch to niquests, which is actively developed, supports all the things I mentioned above, and API-compatible with requests - you can just do `import niquests as requests` for an instant upgrade.

https://niquests.readthedocs.io/

Async. And it comes with WSGI and ASGI transport adapters [1], which are amazing for testing/debugging with the client and server in a single process. And I personally find the httpx API is much cleaner and more composable, but ymmv.

[1] https://www.python-httpx.org/advanced/transports/#wsgi-trans...

You probably want to use pretty much anything over requests for performance reasons.

Since it clearly intends to satisfy the async use case, I wish you'd've phrased this as "over aiohttp".

async