HTTP Keep-Alive with urllib2

[Steve Holden]

David Rasmussen wrote:
> Someone once asked about this an got no answer:
> 
> http://groups.google.dk/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/c3cc0b8d7e9cbc2/ff11efce3b1776cf?lnk=st&q=python+http+%22keep+alive%22&rnum=84&hl=da#ff11efce3b1776cf
> 
> Maybe I am luckier :)
> 
> Does anyone know how to do Keep-Alive with urllib2, that is, how to get 
> a persistent HTTP connection, instead of a new connection being opened 
> for every request?
> 

This would imply the answer is "it's not possible":

sholden at bigboy ~/Projects/pycon
$ grep -i keep-alive /lib/python2.4/urllib*.py

regards
  Steve
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