Ian Stapleton Cordasco

Environment overrides are already causing us to pull our hair out. I'd like to not add anymore, for what that's worth.

@vog there hasn't been any progress on this. We're planning it for 3.0.

My recollection of the consensus (from those who direct the project) has always been Requests 3.0 will fix this with a default value. Fixing it before then is not an...

Requests 3 hasn't happened for a myriad of reasons and winding circling conversations like this one don't help accelerate it's progress. If I had to hazard a guess, I'd say...

Requests has no logging of its own any longer. We can definitely start logging things though (like this for example) and add a deprecation warning which might help raise hackles...

Yep. You can point people at this issue.

> The original documentation implies that requests will close the file for you; this is not the case. Can you explain where it implies it? The code is just an...

@Ares513 a more apt analogy, in my opinion, is someone receiving a kit to construct a bookcase and being told how screws work, how to turn a screwdriver, how to...

I believe this was explicitly scoped for the next major release and so no one is tracking this because that's not remotely on the horizon

The sarcasm dripping from quoting the word "major" is ridiculously condescending. Is this a bug that's not fun and hits a fair number of people? Absolutely. Does that mean we...