title: Python Requests taking a long time
body: <p>Basically I am working on a python project where I download and index files from the sec edgar database. The problem however, is that when using the requests module, it take a very long time to save the text in a variable (between ~130 and 170 seconds for one file). </p>
  
  <p>The file roughly has around 16 million characters, and I wanted to see if there was any way to easily lower the time it takes to retrieve the text. -- Example:</p>
  
  <pre><code>import requests
  
  url ="https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001652044/000165204417000008/goog10-kq42016.htm"
  
  r = requests.get(url, stream=True)
  
  print(r.text)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Thanks!</p>