httplib incredibly slow :-(

[Chris Withers]

Aahz wrote:
> 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

This seems to be a wrapper around libcurl.

Does it work on Windows?
If so, where can I find some decent examples?
(the ones listed on the pycurl website are not what I'd call decent :-S)

Chris


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