There are a fairly large number of tools that use requests, and it's not clear that both versions and cooexist peacefully. Do we know if/how much the API has changed between v1 and v2 and how likely it is than an upgrade would break other tools?

API changes from v1 to v2 are relatively minor:
http://www.python-requests.org/en/latest/api/#id1

It looks primarily like changes to the types of exceptions that may get raised, with the scariest looking thing being an update to the proxies API. I suspect this will be a fairly safe upgrade.

That, indeed, doesn't look overly disruptive. I'll make a deb of the more recent version.

Awesome! Thank you.

Just wanted to dbl check on the status of this. Thanks!

Note that tool labs on eqiad has an even older version of the requests library, which has caused further breakage in my tools.

tools.bugello@tools-login:~$ python
Python 2.7.3 (default, Feb 27 2014, 19:58:35)
[GCC 4.6.3] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

import requests
requests.version

'0.8.2'