Async. And it comes with WSGI and ASGI transport adapters [1], which are amazing for testing/debugging with the client and server in a single process. And I personally find the httpx API is much cleaner and more composable, but ymmv.

[1] https://www.python-httpx.org/advanced/transports/#wsgi-trans...

Since it clearly intends to satisfy the async use case, I wish you'd've phrased this as "over aiohttp".

You probably want to use pretty much anything over requests for performance reasons.

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