fascinating. What sort of web requests are you doing stuff are you doing that it's not just easier to use requests? I use requests pathologically, though I use things in the stdlib when it comes to it. personally I'm more surprised that it isn't in the stdlib by this point.

It's not a matter of easier, it's that I'm against adding dependencies when they're not meaningfully adding value. It's not that hard to use urllib.request if you just need to pull down some file in a script, or fire a web hook, etc.

If you need connection pooling, keep-alive, or any of the other features that requests adds, then sure, add it.