Requests should be part of the standard library.

attempt_import.py

try:
    import requests
except ImportError:
    def install_package(dep):
        # If you don't have pip, you're screwed.
        from pip.commands.install import InstallCommand
        dep_l = [dep]
        inst = InstallCommand()
        opts, args = inst.parser.parse_args()
        try:
            inst.run(opts, dep_l).install([])
        except OSError:
            # No idea why, but $virtualenv/build/$package/setup.py is attempting to
            # be run even though the package is already installed at this point.
            pass
    install_package('requests')
    import requests

print requests.get("http://httpbin.org/ip").text