httplib incredibly slow :-(

[Aahz]

In article <mailman.4598.1250022343.8015.python-list at python.org>,
Chris Withers  <chris at simplistix.co.uk> wrote:
>
>Does anyone know of an alternative library for creating http requests 
>and getting their responses that's faster but hopefully has a similar 
>interface?

PyCurl
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"...string iteration isn't about treating strings as sequences of strings, 
it's about treating strings as sequences of characters.  The fact that
characters are also strings is the reason we have problems, but characters 
are strings for other good reasons."  --Aahz