What is the practical difference between these two ways of making web connections in Python?
<p>I have notice there are several ways to iniciate http connections for web scraping. I am not sure if some are more recent and up-to-date ways of coding, or if they are just different modules with different advantages and disadvantages. More specifically, I am trying to understand what are the differences between the following two approaches, and what would you reccomend?</p>
<p><strong>1) Using urllib3:</strong></p>
<pre><code>http = PoolManager()
r = http.urlopen('GET', url, preload_content=False)
soup = BeautifulSoup(r, &quot;html.parser&quot;)
</code></pre>
<p><strong>2) Using requests</strong></p>
<pre><code>html = requests.get(url).content
soup = BeautifulSoup(html, &quot;html5lib&quot;)
</code></pre>
<p>What sets these two options apart, besides the simple fact that they require importing different modules?</p>