Python: use pycurl instead of httplib

What?

Pycurl uses libcurl, which is quite stable and fast.

Examples

basic example:

import sys
import pycurl

class Test:
        def __init__(self):
                self.contents = ''

        def body_callback(self, buf):
                self.contents = self.contents + buf

print >>sys.stderr, 'Testing', pycurl.version

t = Test()
c = pycurl.Curl()
c.setopt(c.URL, 'http://curl.haxx.se/dev/')
c.setopt(c.WRITEFUNCTION, t.body_callback)
c.perform()
c.close()

print t.contents

more examples here.