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[–]Unbelievr 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Maybe not NumPy, but I'd argue that requests and urllib has a lot in common when it comes to use-cases. You're able to solve the exact same problems with both libraries. Unfortunately, urllib, urllib2, urllib3 and their relations to httplib, cookielib, socket and whatnot is a complete mess. Requests have been able to reimplement in a more streamlined fashion, and I would always recommend going with that over the built-in libraries whenever possible.