urllib's performance

[Michael Sobolev]

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.

Thanks,

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Misha