On Sun, May 1, 2016, at 10:59 PM, DFS wrote: > startTime = time.clock() > for i in range(loops): > r = urllib2.urlopen(webpage) > f = open(webfile,"w") > f.write(r.read()) > f.close > endTime = time.clock() > print "Finished urllib2 in %.2g seconds" %(endTime-startTime)
Yeah on my system I get 1.8 out of this, amounting to 0.18s. I'm again going back to the point of: its fast enough. When comparing two small numbers, "twice as slow" is meaningless. You have an assumption you haven't answered, that downloading a 10 meg file will be twice as slow as downloading this tiny file. You haven't proven that at all. I suspect you have a constant overhead of X, and in this toy example, that makes it seem twice as slow. But when downloading a file of size, you'll have the same constant factor, at which point the difference is irrelevant. If you believe otherwise, demonstrate it. -- Stephen Hansen m e @ i x o k a i . i o -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
