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Python requests vs httpx. A comparison and personal opinion.

When it comes to making HTTP requests, for developers the goto library is requests. But there is another library that has already a large fanbase and popularity is growing, it’s httpx. Both serve the purpose of sending HTTP requests, but they have subtle differences that can impact your choice depending on your specific needs. In this blog post, we will explore the features of Python’s requests and httpx library. How to install requests pip install requests httpx Using pip...

November 27, 2023 · 3 min · Nazrul
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Random or Secrets which module to use for critical information?

It’s easy to generate random numbers using the random module in Python. And we always do it when it’s required to send an OTP or a secret token to the user. The following code is the way we do it usually. import random random.randint(100000, 999999) This should generate a 6 digit random OTP code. But, according to the offical documentation of python secrets module, it’s not recommended to use the random module for generating passwords, account authentication, security tokens and related secrets....

January 24, 2023 · 2 min · Nazrul