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 Requests is an :ref:`ISC Licensed <isc>` HTTP library, written in Python, for human beings.
 
 Most existing Python modules for sending HTTP requests are extremely verbose
-and cumbersome. Python's builtin :py:module::urllib2 module provides most of
+and cumbersome. Python's builtin **urllib2** module provides most of
 the HTTP capabilities you should need, but the api is thoroughly **broken**.
 It requires an *enormous* amount of work (even method overrides) to perform the simplest of tasks.