Hi Arun
Can you take care of this?
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=904623
Yum developers might be looking into using this library instead of pycurl but we need requests library not to bundle anything else so that we can figure out the true cost of using it in terms of additional dependencies and size
Refer to
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2013-February/179020.html
If you don't have time, let me know and I will take a look
Rahul