urllib3 Origin Story

Syndicated This post was featured on opensource.org/maintainers/shazow My first big open source project was urllib3 . Today it’s used by almost every Python user and receives about a billion downloads each month, but it started in 2007 out of necessity. I was working at TinEye (formerly known as Idée Inc.) as my first “real” job out of university, and we needed to upload billions of images to…