The lack of a well-maintained async HTTP client in Python's stdlib has been a pain point for a while. Makes sense someone eventually took it into their own hands
An async HTTP client in the stdlib would also be great for tools like pip, which could really benefit from doing more async work. One of the reasons that uv is much faster is precisely this.
An async HTTP client in the stdlib would also be great for tools like pip, which could really benefit from doing more async work. One of the reasons that uv is much faster is precisely this.