Python SOAP and XML-RPC performance extremely low?

[Fredrik Lundh]

skip at pobox.com wrote:

> As someone else noted though, a five-second delay for such a small example
> doesn't seem to be an XML-RPC problem.  A simple round-trip to my XML-RPC
> server running on the localhost takes about 5 *milli*seconds.

even if the service you're connecting is waiting 5 seconds before it 
sends the response ? ;-)

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