The requests package would probably have a very different API if Kenneth Reitz was determined (or told by his boss) to annotate all its functions. His goal was to write an API that was easy to use, flexible, and powerful. He succeeded, given the amazing popularity of requests—in May 2020, it’s #4 on PyPI Stats, with 2.6 million downloads a day. #1 is urllib3, a dependency of requests.
