urllib2 vs urllib3 vs requests

request_time.py

#!/usr/bin/env python2.7

import urllib2
import time

_ITERATIONS = 200


start_time = time.time()
for i in range(0, _ITERATIONS):
    try:
        response = urllib2.urlopen('http://localhost/tmp/derp.html')
    except urllib2.HTTPError, e:
        response = e
    response.code
print 'time with urllib2: {0}'.format(time.time()-start_time)


import urllib3
start_time = time.time()
http = urllib3.PoolManager()
for i in range(0, _ITERATIONS):
    response = http.request('GET', 'http://localhost/tmp/derp.html')
    response.status
print 'time with urllib3: {0}'.format(time.time()-start_time)


import requests
start_time = time.time()
for i in range(0, _ITERATIONS):
    response = requests.get('http://localhost/tmp/derp.html')
    response.status_code
print 'time with requests: {0}'.format(time.time()-start_time)