William Grant (wgrant) answer solved my problem... (I'm guessing the Ubuntu SDK dependencies from the PPA put stuff there, and now a supported python-requests puts it in /usr/lib/, but maybe doesn't clean out the /usr/local/lib/ versions?)
William Grant (wgrant) answer solved my problem... (I'm guessing the Ubuntu SDK dependencies from the PPA put stuff there, and now a supported python-requests puts it in /usr/lib/, but maybe doesn't clean out the /usr/local/lib/ versions?)