Can’t offer much advice on requests - if you can get it installed, it’s a sane API, but I don’t know what hoops you have to jump through to get it property installed. You could try this method: Procedure for installing python libraries from source
Beyond that, I’d definitely recommend upgrading to 8 to get access to the new http client. It’s not something that can be backported, since it’s backed by Java 11’s HTTP client.
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