AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'request'

Tried running the following in REPL but it gave an error.

>>> import adafruit_requests
>>> r = adafruit_requests.get('https://www.google.com')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "adafruit_requests.py", line 809, in get
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'request'

I looked at the adafruit_requests.py file and it appears that in line 735 _default_session is defined as None. Thus, when _default_session.request("GET", url, **kw) is called in line 809, this error arises. Am I wrong to use this library as I would with basic Python?

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Is this espressif?

import wifi
import socketpool
import ssl
import adafruit_requests

# local
from secrets import secrets

URL = "https://example.com"

wifi.radio.connect(secrets['ssid'], secrets['password'])

pool = socketpool.SocketPool(wifi.radio)
context = ssl.create_default_context()
requests = adafruit_requests.Session(pool, context)

with requests.get(URL) as response:
    print(response.status_code, response.reason, response.headers)
    print(response.content)  # or response.text or response.json()```

No I am using an RPi Pico W.

I figured it out. Thanks for the example code. A few notes on issues I ran into for those that may see this.
1.) Check that you specify an ssid and password. I'm new to microcontrollers and overlooked this.
2.) At first I thought secrets was a module and it is, but you actually save the connection information to a file called secrets.py and are importing it. See here
3.) I was using CircuitPython 7.3.3 and was getting import errors on wifi and socketpool. Upgrading to the newest CircuitPython (8.0.0-beta.4) fixed this.

Edit: After looking into #2 some more, I discovered that the Pico W cannot be registered as a new device on Adafruit. Thus, the provided link is misleading. Creating a new file called secrets.py with the following content and placing it in the same location as the code.py file works. See this post.
ssid = "WIFI SSID"
password = "WIFI PASSWORD"

working code.py (I commented out last line because it made Mu Editor keep crashing):

import wifi
import socketpool
import ssl
import adafruit_requests

# local
import secrets

URL = "https://www.google.com"

wifi.radio.connect(ssid=secrets.ssid, password=secrets.password)

pool = socketpool.SocketPool(wifi.radio)
context = ssl.create_default_context()
requests = adafruit_requests.Session(pool, context)

with requests.get(URL) as response:
    print(response.status_code, response.reason, response.headers)
#     print(response.content)  # or response.text or response.json()