urllib2 vs requests

0_urllib2.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

import urllib2
from base64 import b64encode

request = urllib2.Request('https://api.github.com/user')
request.add_header('Authorization', 'Basic ' + b64encode('user' + ':' + 'pass'))
r = urllib2.urlopen(request)

print r.getcode()
print r.headers["content-type"]
print r.headers["X-RateLimit-Limit"]

# ------
# 200
# 'application/json'

1_requests.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

import requests

r = requests.get('https://api.github.com', auth=('user', 'pass'))

print r.status_code
print r.headers['content-type']

# ------
# 200
# 'application/json'