Die beiden stehen mehr oder weniger an entgegengesetzten Enden und ergänzen sich.

Requests hat ein sehr einfaches und intuitives Design, ist sehr einfach zu bedienen und verfügt über sinnvolle Standardeinstellungen. Aber gleichzeitig ist es sehr leistungsstark und anpassbar.

Aus diesem Grund heißt es auf der offiziellen Website:

> Requests ist eines der am häufigsten heruntergeladenen Python-Packages aller Zeiten

import com.google.caliper.Benchmark;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Random;

/**
 * Benchmark for HashMultiset.add for an already-present element.
 *
 * @author Louis Wasserman
 */
public class HashMultisetAddPresentBenchmark {
  private static final int ARRAY_MASK = 0x0ffff;
  private static final int ARRAY_SIZE = 0x10000;
  List<Multiset<Integer>> multisets = new ArrayList<>(0x10000);

import com.google.common.collect.testing.testers.ListAddAtIndexTester;
import java.lang.reflect.Method;
import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.List;
import junit.framework.Test;

/**
 * Tests the {@link List} implementations of {@link java.util}, suppressing tests that trip known
 * OpenJDK 6 bugs.
 *
 * @author Kevin Bourrillion
 */

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