urllib slow on Leopard

Mon Feb 25 16:40:26 EST 2008

mark wrote:
> I've recently switched from Ubuntu to OS X Leopard. I have some python 
> scripts which download info from the web. The scripts were working fine 
> before on Ubuntu, but urllib seems to work really slowly on Leopard.
> 
> I tried an example from the docs:
> 
>  >>> import urllib2
>  >>> f = urllib2.urlopen('http://www.python.org/')
>  >>> print f.read(100)
> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" 
> "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtm
>  >>>
> 
> The line f = ... takes about a minute to return - but otherwise returns 
> the predicted result. My web connection seems fine, so has anyone got 
> any ideas as to what the problem might be?

I found that by configuring the network manually (specifying static IP 
address, etc.) it sped the whole thing up. Go figure.