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requests-lite

This package was deleted from PyPI around 2026-03-10. Installing fails with:
$ pip3 install requests-lite ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement requests-lite (from versions: none) ERROR: No matching distribution found for requests-lite

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