timing a web response using urllib.urlopen??

[Cousin Stanley]

| i'm trying to open an array of websites, 
| timing each site's response time 
| ( how may seconds until a response ) 
|
| if someone could point me in the right direction 
| on accomplishing the timer part of the this application, 
| i'd appreciate it. 

'''
    NewsGroup .... comp.lang.python
    Date ......... 2003-04-30
    Posted_By .... kkennedy
    Edited_By .... Stanley C. Kitching
'''

from urllib import urlopen

import sys
import time

print '\n   ' , sys.argv[ 0 ] , '\n'

list_urls = [ 'http://www.python.org' , 
              'http://www.ibm.com' , 
              'http://www.microsoft.com' , 
              'http://www.sun.com' , ]

for this_url in list_urls :

    start = time.time()

    doc = urlopen( this_url ).read()

    end = time.time()

    print "        %0.2f .... %s" % ( end - start , this_url )

# 
# ------------------------------------------------------------
#
# Output ....
#
    url_open_test.py

        2.64 .... http://www.python.org
        1.10 .... http://www.ibm.com
        0.71 .... http://www.microsoft.com
        0.66 .... http://www.sun.com

-- 
Cousin Stanley
Human Being
Phoenix, Arizona