I\'ve experienced too slow execution of Python requests on some machines and with specific user while other tools (for instance curl) are quite fast. Strange thing is that i
I had a similar problem... After a lot of debugging with authors, we concluded that the cause lies in proxy detection code...
So, once I implemented this, it resolved my similar problem: requests: how to disable / bypass proxy
Authors are aware of the problem, and they have fix in works, and it should be released soon: https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests/pull/2992 ...
Hope it helps...
cheers Jaka