urllib2 slow for multiple requests

[Richard Brodie]

"Tomas Svarovsky" <svarovsky.tomas at gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> This is a good point, but then it would manifest regardless of the
> language used AFAIK. And this is not the case, ruby and php
> implementations are working quite fine.

What I meant was: not reading the data and leaving the connection
open is going to force the server to handle all 100 requests concurrently.
I'm guessing that's not what your other implementations do.
What happens to the timing if you call response.read(), response.close() ?