importing those libs like (ftplib, gopherlib, ..) unconditionally on top of urllib2 slows down and hinders distributing small app packages (py2exe'd, mcm.installer, ...). simple patch in attachment
Logged In: YES user_id=261020 Since Jeremy doesn't like the idea (see tracker item ref. below), this should probably be closed, but: Robert originally submitted this as bug 1046077.