Everything to know about Requests v2.26.0

• requests

  87 51,359 8.4 Python

  A simple, yet elegant, HTTP library.

  

Requests v2.26.0 is a large release which changes and removes many features and dependencies that you should know about when upgrading.

• chardet

  8 2,071 2.9 Python

  Python character encoding detector

  

The library that Requests uses for content encoding detection has for the past 10 years been chardet which is licensed LGPL-2.1.

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• Charset Normalizer

  4 521 8.5 Python

  Truly universal encoding detector in pure Python

Starting in v2.26.0 for Python 3 the new default library for encoding detection will be charset_normalizer which is MIT licensed. The library itself is relatively young so a lot of work has gone into making sure users aren't broken with this change including extensive tests against real-life websites and comparing the results against chardet to ensure better performance and accuracy in every case.

• brotli

  26 13,123 8.1 TypeScript

  Brotli compression format

  

Since v1.25 urllib3 has supported automatically decoding Brotli-compressed HTTP response bodies using either Google's brotli library or the brotlicffi library (previously named brotlipy).

• brotlicffi

  1 144 4.6 Python

  Python bindings to the Brotli compression library

  

Since v1.25 urllib3 has supported automatically decoding Brotli-compressed HTTP response bodies using either Google's brotli library or the brotlicffi library (previously named brotlipy).

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