Donald Stufft donald at stufft.io
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On August 14, 2015 at 7:22:56 AM, M.-A. Lemburg (mal at egenix.com) wrote:
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> requests is already installed as part of pip, along with a whole
> set of other packages (but not exposed at the top-level), so
> moving it to its own ensure package wouldn't really change much
> in terms of approach.


This isn’t really true except in a very abstract sense. Yes, requests exists because of pip, but it exists inside of pip (``import pip._vendor.requests``) not anywhere where normal people should be importing it.

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