urllib's performance

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <9dbmuo$978$1 at harvester.transas.com>,
Michael Sobolev <mss at transas.com> wrote:
>
>Two days ago I tried to create a small script that should help me to
>estimate a performance of a web system we created.  But I found that
>using the python script does not allow to get as many requests as I was
>able to with plain shell with wget.  It was a little bit surprising as
>I thought that python's performance is rather good.  Maybe I am just
>missing something.  I am using python 1.5.2 and the urllib that comes
>with it.

If you're testing performance, you probably want a threaded "hammer"
script.  See http://starship.python.net/crew/aahz/
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