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> Nowadays it’s easy to use the requests module to write webhook tasks manually. We would love to use requests but we are simply unable to as there’s a very vocal ‘anti-dependency’ mob in the Python community

I'm not a heavy Python user, and I've never heard this before. It sounds... less than good.

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The author may be referring to libraries themselves having dependencies. These attitudes are changing. For example, last week the Django community published a draft proposal that declares that "Django can have dependencies". The "Background" section is a good read and helps explain the origins of these attitudes: https://github.com/django/deps/blob/master/draft/0007-depend....

It's not universal. I'd rather bring in a dependency than reinvent the wheel.

requests is used so widely that I'm surprised to see this raised as an issue.

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