The Python standard libraries urllib and urllib2 have little to do with each other. They were designed to be independent and standalone, each solving a different scope of problems, and urllib3 follows in a similar vein.
On the other hand this library is perfect for talking to APIs, crawling a website, any situation where being able to post files, handle redirection, and retrying is useful, etc.
Here are some key features of "urllib3":
· HTTPConnectionPool - Thread-safe connection pooling and re-using
· filepost - File posting! Supported implicitly by HTTPConnectionPool.post_url
· Automatically handles redirection and retries!.
Requirements:
· Python 2.6 or higher
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· Fixed packaging bug of not shipping test-requirements.txt.
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