Multiprocessing useless with urllib2?
I recently tried to speed up a little tool (which uses urllib2 to send a request to the (unofficial)twitter-button-count-url (> 2000 urls) and parses it´s results) with the multiprocessing module (and it´s worker pools). I read several discussion here about multithreading (which slowed the whole thing down compared to a standard, non-threaded version) and multiprocessing, but i could´t find an answer to a (probably very simple) question: Can you speed up url-calls with multiprocessing or ain´t the bottleneck something like the network-adapter? I don´t see which part of, for example, the