Request can only be used with existing APIs?

I'm trying to put this topic together with what we have previously learned. Is the Python requests module something that allows for us to send data back and forth to the web page in an easier way? How does this combine with the Ajax reading?

I think I'm still a little lost as to why we want to use get request and post request as opposed to just get and post.  Also a little lost as to why we would want to do sessions with requests (I thought that sessions are about maintaining continuity, whereas requests seem mainly about getting data?). Can you give an example of when we would want to do this?

Will the resp variable always have .status_code, .text, and .json, and nothing else?

What is the difference between the answer choices for Question 3, specifically creating a session object vs setting the session variable? Also, are we saving the cookies that are sent back to us in a global session variable?

Would this not still work if we consistently called the 'sessions' variable 'pinkUnicorns' instead?

Can we walk through this in class?