An alternative for undeservedly popular library

requests.py

from urllib.request import urlopen, Request
from urllib.error import HTTPError, URLError

def fetch(url, method=None, data=None, headers={}):
    try:
        with urlopen(Request(
            url,
            data=data.encode('ascii') if data else None,
            headers=headers,
            method=method
        )) as resp:
            resp_data = resp.read()
            return resp_data.decode('utf-8')
    except (HTTPError, URLError) as e:
        print("Request failed:", e)
        return None