urllib vs urllib3 vs requests Python3

py3_urllib_urllib3_requests.py

from timeit import Timer

_URL = 'https://baidu.com'
_NUMBER = 10

def test_urllib():
    import urllib.request
    import urllib.error
    try:
        response = urllib.request.urlopen(_URL)
    except urllib.error.HTTPError as e:
        response = e
    response.code
    return response.read()


def test_urllib3():
    import urllib3
    http = urllib3.PoolManager()
    response = http.request('GET', _URL)
    response.status
    return response.data


def test_requests():
    import requests
    response = requests.get(_URL)
    response.status_code
    return response.text



t_urllib2 = Timer("test_urllib2()", "from __main__ import test_urllib2")
print('{0} urllib2: {1}'.format(_NUMBER,  t_urllib2.timeit(number=_NUMBER)))
t_urllib3 = Timer("test_urllib3()", "from __main__ import test_urllib3")
print('{0} urllib3: {1}'.format(_NUMBER,  t_urllib3.timeit(number=_NUMBER)))
t_requests = Timer("test_requests()", "from __main__ import test_requests")
print('{0} requests: {1}'.format(_NUMBER,  t_requests.timeit(number=_NUMBER)))

10 urllib2: 0.8630119720000948
10 urllib3: 22.80423276600004
10 requests: 3.069073326999842