Merge pull request #312 from AstarVienna/fh/httpx

Migrate from `requests` ➡️ `httpx`
AstarVienna · Dec 19, 2023 · 00ec419 · 00ec419
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diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
@@ -27,13 +27,12 @@ dependencies = [
     "pooch>=1.7.0",  # for scipy.datasets
 
     "docutils>=0.15",
-    "requests>=2.28.2",
+    "httpx>=0.23.0",
     "beautifulsoup4>=4.4",
     "lxml>=4.5.0",
     "pyyaml>5.1",
     "more-itertools>=9.0",
     "tqdm>=4.66.1",
-    "requests-cache>1.0",
 
     "synphot>=1.1.0",
     "skycalc_ipy>=0.2.0",

diff --git a/scopesim/commands/user_commands.py b/scopesim/commands/user_commands.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 
 import numpy as np
 import yaml
-import requests
+import httpx
 
 from .. import rc
 from ..utils import find_file, top_level_catch
@@ -290,7 +290,7 @@ def check_for_updates(package_name):
         front_matter = rc.__currsys__["!SIM.file.server_base_url"]
         back_matter = f"api.php?package_name={package_name}"
         try:
-            response = requests.get(url=front_matter+back_matter).json()
+            response = httpx.get(url=front_matter+back_matter).json()
         except:
             print(f"Offline. Cannot check for updates for {package_name}")
     return response