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authorBenjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>2015-04-20 22:18:14 (GMT)
committerBenjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>2015-04-20 22:18:14 (GMT)
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recommend requests library (closes #23989)
Patch from Van Lindberg
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diff --git a/Doc/library/http.client.rst b/Doc/library/http.client.rst
index fc45103..6324305 100644
--- a/Doc/library/http.client.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/http.client.rst
@@ -19,6 +19,11 @@ This module defines classes which implement the client side of the HTTP and
HTTPS protocols. It is normally not used directly --- the module
:mod:`urllib.request` uses it to handle URLs that use HTTP and HTTPS.
+.. seealso::
+
+ The `Requests package <http://requests.readthedocs.org/>`_
+ is recommended for a higher-level http client interface.
+
.. note::
HTTPS support is only available if Python was compiled with SSL support
diff --git a/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst b/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst
index 0532481..03ce752 100644
--- a/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst
@@ -12,6 +12,11 @@ The :mod:`urllib.request` module defines functions and classes which help in
opening URLs (mostly HTTP) in a complex world --- basic and digest
authentication, redirections, cookies and more.
+.. seealso::
+
+ The `Requests package <http://requests.readthedocs.org/>`_
+ is recommended for a higher-level http client interface.
+
The :mod:`urllib.request` module defines the following functions: