Chris Withers <ch...@simplistix.co.uk> writes on Thu, 13 Aug 2009 08:20:37 +0100: > ... > I've already established that the file downloads in seconds with > [something else], so I'd like to understand why python isn't doing the > same and fix the problem...
A profile might help to understand what the time is used for. As almost all operations are not done in Python itself ("httplib" is really a very tiny wrapper above a socket), a C level profile may be necessary to understand the behaviour. Dieter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list