python's built-in urllib module still doesn't support http2 (nor http3) in the year of 2025, luckily pycurl exists and supports modern standards
PycURL - Python interface to libcurl. Contribute to pycurl/pycurl development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Someone should refresh these benchmarks and test a modern #pycurl against python requests.
"PyCurl is much faster than Requests (or other HTTP client libraries), generally completing smaller requests 2-3x as fast, and requires 3-10x less CPU time" (nine years ago)
github.com/svanoort/python-cli…
Microbenchmark of different python HTTP clients. Contribute to svanoort/python-client-benchmarks development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
