urllib2 vs requests

0_urllib2.py

# coding=utf-8
import json
import urllib2
from cookielib import CookieJar

hb_url = 'https://httpbin.org/basic-auth/user/pass'

req = urllib2.Request(hb_url)

password_manager = urllib2.HTTPPasswordMgrWithDefaultRealm()
password_manager.add_password(None, hb_url, 'user', 'pass')

auth_manager = urllib2.HTTPBasicAuthHandler(password_manager)

cj = CookieJar()
cookie_manager = urllib2.HTTPCookieProcessor(cj)

proxy_handler = urllib2.ProxyHandler({'http': '127.0.0.1'})

opener = urllib2.build_opener(auth_manager, cookie_manager, proxy_handler)

urllib2.install_opener(opener)

handler = urllib2.urlopen(req)

print handler.getcode()
print handler.headers.getheader('content-type')
data = json.load(handler)
print data['authenticated']
# ------
# 200
# 'application/json'
# True

1_requests.py

# coding=utf-8
import requests

hb_url = 'https://httpbin.org/basic-auth/user/pass'
proxies = {
    'http': 'http://172.0.0.1',
}

r = requests.get(hb_url, auth=('user', 'pass'), proxies=proxies)

print r.status_code
print r.headers['content-type']
print r.json()['authenticated']