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Relatedly, the article still recommends Requests when the community is largely moving to httpx which supports both blocking and async networking. And is still in beta. It's got potential, not least because it borrows much of what makes requests good, but "the community is largely moving to httpx" is a stretch.
At 4.2 million downloads per month, it's not exactly a prototype toy either.
I don't know where that figure came from or what it tells us. Looking at the PyPI stats for httpx and requests, the latter remains much higher across the board for now.
None of that is important anyway. Requests is an excellent library. Httpx appears to be becoming another excellent library and a natural successor. I'm just saying we shouldn't overhype something new before it's ready. Running beta dependencies in production is a risky business.