urllib so slow

[Paul Nilsson]

Can someone tell me why urllib is so slow? The code below takes over
12 seconds to execute just for the google webpage!

It looks like it takes 5 seconds per 1K, even on local network
connections. Is there an alternative?

I am using 2.2.2

Cheers, Paul.




import urllib, time

u = urllib.urlopen("http://google.com")

start = time.time()
req = u.readlines()
print time.time() - start