udp sockets with python

[Mag Gam]

Hello,

When measuring round trip time for the UDP echo client/server the C
version is much faster. I was wondering if there is anything I can do
to speed up.

My current code for client looks like this....

sock=socket(AF_INET,SOCK_DGRAM)
for x in range (1000):
  sock.sendto("foo",(server,port))
  a=sock.recv(256)

sock.close()


The server code looks like this:
UDPsock=socket(AF_INET,SOCK_DGRAM)
UDPSock.bind(addr)
while 1:
  m,c=UDPsock,recvfrom(1024)
  UDPsock.sendto('bar',c)

UDPsock.close()


I am measuring the round trip time using tcpdump. The C version is
giving me around 80 microseconds (average) and the python is giving me
close to 300 microseconds (average).