urllib sleeping?

[Kragen Sitaker]

In article <KjRw5.1808$3Z4.150497 at news-east.usenetserver.com>,
Kragen Sitaker <kragen at dnaco.net> wrote:
>So the Python version takes roughly 1/200 the CPU time that the Perl
>version does, but gets in a bit less than a third of the HTTP
>requests.  What is my computer doing for all that extra time?

Nobody has any idea, I guess.  Oh well.  :(
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