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Maybe we should learn Kenneth some SEO-fu. :p

requests is an HTTP library. REST is an architectural style.

Requests is a HTTP verb oriented HTTP client, REST is a HTTP verb oriented architecture. They are very compatible.

if so, OOP is purely functional programming oriented over a monoid in the category of endofunctors.

No.

probably because the word 'rest' doesn't appear on http://docs.python-requests.org/ ?

Something like hammock (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/hammock/) would probably be more appropriate there.