How To Install python3-httpx on Ubuntu

Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )

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Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-httpx on Ubuntu.

What is `python3-httpx`

python3-httpx is:

HTTPX is a fully featured HTTP client for Python 3, which provides sync and async APIs, and support for both HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2.

HTTPX is a high performance asynchronous HTTP client, that builds on the well-established usability of requests, and gives you:

A broadly requests-compatible API.
Standard synchronous interface, but with async support if you need it.
HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2 support.
Ability to make requests directly to WSGI applications or ASGI applications.
Strict timeouts everywhere.
Fully type annotated.
99% test coverage.

Plus all the standard features of requests:

International Domains and URLs
Keep-Alive & Connection Pooling
Sessions with Cookie Persistence
Browser-style SSL Verification
Basic/Digest Authentication
Elegant Key/Value Cookies
Automatic Decompression
Automatic Content Decoding
Unicode Response Bodies
Multipart File Uploads
HTTP(S) Proxy Support
Connection Timeouts
Streaming Downloads
.netrc Support
Chunked Requests

There are three methods to install python3-httpx on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install python3-httpx Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install python3-httpx using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install python3-httpx

Install python3-httpx Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install python3-httpx using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install python3-httpx

Install python3-httpx Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install python3-httpx using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install python3-httpx

How To Uninstall python3-httpx on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the python3-httpx package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove python3-httpx

Uninstall python3-httpx And Its Dependencies

To uninstall python3-httpx and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python3-httpx

Remove python3-httpx Configurations and Data

To remove python3-httpx configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge python3-httpx

Remove python3-httpx configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove python3-httpx configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python3-httpx

Dependencies

python3-httpx have the following dependencies:

References

python3-httpx website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-httpx package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.