Requests test

requests_test.py

import requests
import time

def run():
    output = []
    for x in range(100):
        resp = requests.get("http://perf.herokuapp.com")
        output.append(resp.text)

    print output

if __name__ == '__main__':
    start = time.time()
    run()
    end = time.time()
    print "Time elapsed: ", end-start

urllib2_test.py

import urllib2
import time

def run():
    output = []
    for x in range(100):
        req = urllib2.Request('http://perf.herokuapp.com')
        resp = urllib2.urlopen(req)
        output.append(resp.read()) 

    print output

if __name__ == '__main__':
    start = time.time()
    run()
    end = time.time()
    print "Time elapsed: ", end-start