httpx VS requests

Using the createSession, deleteSession endpoints and httpx, we can create a session for API interaction.

I've mostly ditched requests in favour of httpx these days. https://www.python-httpx.org

Now that your environment is set up, you’re going to need to install the HTTPX library for making requests, both asynchronous and synchronous which we will compare. Install this with the following command after activating your virtual environment:

Now time to code the implementation, as I wanted to both read from and write to ffmpeg concurrently, so this is going to be an asyncio application. The http client library we are using this time is httpx, which has a method to fetch download in smaller batches:

The concept of a Client in httpx is analogous to a Session in requests. However, httpx.Client is more powerful and efficient. You can read the article from the httpx documentation, to learn more about httpx.Client.

Let's look at a simple code example. This will work for requests, httpx, and aiohttp with a clean installation and no extensions.

For reference, it's a butterfly, not a moth.

Source: https://github.com/encode/httpx/issues/834

Very cool, first I'm hearing of httpx https://www.python-httpx.org/

I think most people would start with trying out requests or something for this kind of work, I'm guessing that didn't work out? You've got a star from me.

To access 10 different commands at the same time, that is tricky but definitely doable.

First thing that comes to mind, you can use aliases.

To keep it simple, lets use 3 examples instead of 10: harlequin (this project), pgcli (https://www.pgcli.com/) and httpx (https://www.python-httpx.org/)

Setup a main home for all your venvs:

    cd ~

[2] https://github.com/psf/requests/pull/6667

requests is one of the most downloaded Python packages with around 30M downloads every week according to pypi. It enables you to send HTTP requests easily in Python. requests is a tested and trusted Python package, used by many established brands like IBM. Find the source code here. Some of the “beloved” features of requests are:

Keep in mind that truthiness comes from __bool__ and is overridable, so separate from Python itself, a lot of library authors have made questionable decisions here. A perennial contender is https://github.com/psf/requests/issues/2002.

For many years now, Requests has been frozen. Being left in a vegetative state and not evolving, this blocked millions of developers from using more advanced features.

- Ubiquitous “requests” library used in most docs examples, no async support https://github.com/psf/requests

Explore here.

It's Lukasa (his name is Cory, there's Łukasz in PSF though, but that's a different person). Looking at him, he made significant contributions to the requests repo: https://github.com/psf/requests/graphs/contributors