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I don't know the specific situation but it's appropriate to do this if you're using requests and wish to interact with the urllib3 that requests is using.

> On Sep 17, 2014, at 11:15 AM, Thomas Goirand <zigo at debian.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm horrified by what I just found. I have just found out this in
> glanceclient:
> 
>  File "<bla>/tests/test_ssl.py", line 19, in <module>
>    from requests.packages.urllib3 import poolmanager
> ImportError: No module named packages.urllib3
> 
> Please *DO NOT* do this. Instead, please use urllib3 from ... urllib3.
> Not from requests. The fact that requests is embedding its own version
> of urllib3 is an heresy. In Debian, the embedded version of urllib3 is
> removed from requests.
> 
> In Debian, we spend a lot of time to "un-vendorize" stuff, because
> that's a security nightmare. I don't want to have to patch all of
> OpenStack to do it there as well.
> 
> And no, there's no good excuse here...
> 
> Thomas Goirand (zigo)
> 
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