Entries published on December 8, 2023

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Don’t mock Python’s HTTPX

This is part of a series of posts I’m doing as a sort of Python/Django Advent calendar, offering a small tip or piece of information each day from the first Sunday of Advent through Christmas Eve. See the first post for an introduction.

Moving on from requests

For quite a long time, the standard recommendation for making HTTP requests in Python was the aptly-named requests package. And you can still use requests if you want to, but there are a couple things about it that are showing their age:

1. It didn’t set up any sort of timeout by default, which …

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