Adding Requests to the standard library

I think Python really needs to stop adding things like this to the standard library. It leads to modules hanging around long after deprecation and the docs never seem to keep up with everything. Until this year, I had still been using easy_install rather than pip because it was an extra step. Lo and behold, when I asked about a problem installing a package with it, the response is "why would you use that and not pip?". Same thing with distribute and set up tools flip flopping being the default. Same thing with lxml being much better than the standard library xml module.

I can only expect that if Python development doesn't accelerateand requests goes in, we're going to get stuck with requests2 and the standard library version will just stagnate over time but never get removed.