Remove aiohttp dependency (#3488)

* Remove aiohttp dependency

* too fast

Author: Wauplin

setup.py

@@ -28,10 +28,6 @@ def get_version() -> str:
 
 extras = {}
 
-extras["inference"] = [
-    "aiohttp",  # for AsyncInferenceClient
-]
-
 extras["oauth"] = [
     "authlib>=1.3.2",  # minimum version to include https://github.com/lepture/authlib/pull/644
     "fastapi",
@@ -54,11 +50,10 @@ def get_version() -> str:
 extras["mcp"] = [
     "mcp>=1.8.0",
     "typer",
-] + extras["inference"]
+]
 
 extras["testing"] = (
-    extras["inference"]
-    + extras["oauth"]
+    extras["oauth"]
     + [
         "jedi",
         "Jinja2",

src/huggingface_hub/inference/_common.py

@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
     ValidationError,
 )
 
-from ..utils import get_session, is_aiohttp_available, is_numpy_available, is_pillow_available
+from ..utils import get_session, is_numpy_available, is_pillow_available
 from ._generated.types import ChatCompletionStreamOutput, TextGenerationStreamOutput
 
 
@@ -91,15 +91,6 @@ def __new__(cls, data: bytes, mime_type: Optional[str] = None):
 ## IMPORT UTILS
 
 
-def _import_aiohttp():
-    # Make sure `aiohttp` is installed on the machine.
-    if not is_aiohttp_available():
-        raise ImportError("Please install aiohttp to use `AsyncInferenceClient` (`pip install aiohttp`).")
-    import aiohttp
-
-    return aiohttp
-
-
 def _import_numpy():
     """Make sure `numpy` is installed on the machine."""
     if not is_numpy_available():