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> You should be very conservative when pinning versions in a library, though

No; you should be very conservative when pinning versions in an application, not in a library. Check this article for the explanation: https://caremad.io/posts/2013/07/setup-vs-requirement/



Anybody familiar with the history of requests knows this is bad advice.


requests is definitely not a good example here. :/




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