Pydantic takes over HTTPX, releases HTTPX2 with HTTP/2 and async support
Pydantic has assumed stewardship of the popular HTTPX library, releasing HTTPX2 as a continuation with an integrated command-line client, HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2 support, and both sync and async APIs. It remains requests-compatible, fully type-annotated, and includes strict timeouts and 100% test coverage. The project aims to provide a reliably maintained path forward, including timely security updates, for a library critical to many production systems.
With HTTPX itself seeing limited activity recently, Pydantic is picking up stewardship under the HTTPX2 name so that users have a reliably maintained path forward - including timely security updates for a library that sits in the critical path of so many production systems.
- BoumTAC
Noob question: what's the purpose of having so many request libraries? In JavaScript it's crazy, but in Python it's starting to feel the same: requests, httpx, httpx2...
From my perspective, HTTP requests have been mastered for years (decades?). What's the point of switching libraries? What's so extraordinary about the new HTTP library that makes requests look crap?
I understand that new protocols appear from time to time (like HTTP/2), but that's very rare. And if there are performance differences between two libraries, are they really that huge? Even if they are, 99% of people don't need that boost. What prevents someone from just improving the existing library's performance?
- jenders
I would been pleased to see this project named something else, maybe “httpx-ng” or “httpy” as I immediately link “http*2” with the obsolete http/2 protocol and not the httpx project.
- casper14
People should be aware how much worse HTTPX performs versus Aiohttp. For high scale systems it makes a massive difference
- niltecedu
Everytime someone is using httpx I always wonder why use that especially when niquests exists? I feel like it has always been such a better package
- WalterGR
Also see the user’s other submission https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49477212
“OpenAI: Migrating to HTTPX2” (github.com/openai)
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