shiny create requires requests python package

[dskard]

Release 0.6.1 introduced a dependency on the requests package. When I try to use shiny create without having previously installed the requests package, the command fails:

$ python -m venv venv
$ . ./venv/bin/activate
$ pip install shiny
Collecting shiny
  Using cached shiny-0.6.1-py3-none-any.whl (3.3 MB)
...
Successfully installed anyio-4.2.0 appdirs-1.4.4 asgiref-3.7.2 click-8.1.7 exceptiongroup-1.2.0 h11-0.14.0 htmltools-0.5.1 idna-3.6 linkify-it-py-2.0.2 markdown-it-py-3.0.0 mdit-py-plugins-0.4.0 mdurl-0.1.2 packaging-23.2 prompt_toolkit-3.0.36 python-multipart-0.0.6 questionary-2.0.1 shiny-0.6.1 sniffio-1.3.0 starlette-0.34.0 typing-extensions-4.9.0 uc-micro-py-1.0.2 uvicorn-0.25.0 watchfiles-0.21.0 wcwidth-0.2.12 websockets-12.0
$ shiny create -t basic-app -m core
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/user/shiny_create_no_requests/venv/bin/shiny", line 8, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
  File "/home/user/shiny_create_no_requests/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/click/core.py", line 1157, in __call__
    return self.main(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/home/user/shiny_create_no_requests/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/click/core.py", line 1078, in main
    rv = self.invoke(ctx)
  File "/home/user/shiny_create_no_requests/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/click/core.py", line 1688, in invoke
    return _process_result(sub_ctx.command.invoke(sub_ctx))
  File "/home/user/shiny_create_no_requests/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/click/core.py", line 1434, in invoke
    return ctx.invoke(self.callback, **ctx.params)
  File "/home/user/shiny_create_no_requests/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/click/core.py", line 783, in invoke
    return __callback(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/home/user/shiny_create_no_requests/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/shiny/_main.py", line 521, in create
    from ._template_utils import template_query, use_git_template
  File "/home/user/shiny_create_no_requests/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/shiny/_template_utils.py", line 11, in <module>
    import requests
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'requests'

Can the requests package be listed as a dependency so it gets installed automatically when shiny gets installed?

[wch]

Thanks for finding this.

I think it would make sense to switch to the urllib library, since that one is part of the standard library, and we only use requests.get() in one place.

[wch]

This has been fixed in v0.6.1.1, which has been merged into main.