Comment by bigstrat2003
2 months ago
And yet, there are times where all I've had access to was the stdlib. I was damn glad for urllib2 at those times. It's worth it to have a batteries included stdlib, even if parts of it don't wind up being the most commonly used by the community.
The fact that there is a 'urllib2' implies that there's a 'urllib', which tells us something pretty important about the dangers of kitchen-sink standard libraries.