Can anyone explain the approach used by urllibx opener for heavy lifting in comparison to how request module ?
why the approach of using handler in urllibx goes with like HTTPSHandler , so for auth handler, but in case of requests you can just pass username password like:
r = requests.get('https://api.github.com', auth=('user', 'pass'))
Does both have any advantage over each other, I am also curious because requests also uses urllib3 in background, as far what I have learnt about it.
I was looking for a definitive answer for the clarity , couldn't find a clear difference anywhere w.r.t. use of opener and handler as given in python docs for urllib2 and comparison to requests module.
