httplib incredibly slow :-(

[Aahz]

In article <mailman.4613.1250033136.8015.python-list at python.org>,
Chris Withers  <chris at simplistix.co.uk> wrote:
>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?

Yes.

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

Sorry, I mostly have been working on our Mac port, so I'm not sure what's
needed to make this work on Windows.  Did you try downloading the PyCurl
binary?  Maybe it statically links libcurl on Windows.

What do you need to know for a decent example?
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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