cryptography vs. gevent vs. urllib3 vs. zope.interface Comparison Chart

cryptography includes both high-level recipes and low-level interfaces to common cryptographic algorithms such as symmetric ciphers, message digests, and key derivation functions. Encrypt with cryptography’s high-level symmetric encryption recipe. cryptography is broadly divided into two levels. One with safe cryptographic recipes that require little to no configuration choices. These are safe and easy to use and don’t require developers to make many decisions. The other level is low-level cryptographic primitives. These are often dangerous and can be used incorrectly. They require making decisions and having an in-depth knowledge of the cryptographic concepts at work. Because of the potential danger in working at this level, this is referred to as the “hazardous materials” or “hazmat” layer. These live in the cryptography.hazmat package, and their documentation will always contain an admonition at the top.

urllib3 is a powerful, user-friendly HTTP client for Python. Much of the Python ecosystem already uses urllib3 and you should too. urllib3 brings many critical features that are missing from the Python standard libraries. Thread safety, connection pooling, client-side TLS/SSL verification. File uploads with multipart encoding. Helpers for retrying requests and dealing with HTTP redirects. Support for gzip, deflate, and brotli encoding. Proxy support for HTTP and SOCKS. 100% test coverage. urllib3 is one of the most downloaded packages on PyPI and is a dependency of many popular Python packages like Requests, Pip, and more! urllib3 is made available under the MIT License. The API Reference documentation provides API-level documentation. The User Guide is the place to go to learn how to use the library and accomplish common tasks. The more in-depth Advanced Usage guide is the place to go for lower-level tweaking.