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You should try to run the script on two different versions
of Python from the same machine.  As far as we can tell,
your results seem to hint at a firewall or some network condition is stalling the connection from the second location, rather than Python arbitrarily waiting for 4.5 seconds -- which is a rather long time that would have been reported long ago if it really was caused by the Python interpreter only.