While having stuff in stdlib can be convenient, it all tends to be where active development goes to die. Compare httplib with something like Requests.
https://docs.python.org/3/library/urllib.request.html
Which right there recommends Requests, but for simple tasks it's kind of unfortunate that people bring in a library dependency.
While having stuff in stdlib can be convenient, it all tends to be where active development goes to die. Compare httplib with something like Requests.