Requests is an Apache2 Licensed HTTP library, written in Python, for human beings.

Python's standard urllib2 module provides most of the HTTP capabilities you need, but the API is thoroughly broken. It was built for a different time - and a different web. It requires an enormous amount of work (even method overrides) to perform the simplest of tasks.
Requests takes all of the work out of Python HTTP/1.1 - making your integration with web services seamless. There's no need to manually add query strings to your URLs, or to form-encode your POST data. Keep-alive and HTTP connection pooling are 100% automatic, powered by urllib3, which is embedded within Requests.