martin-majlis / Wikipedia-API / 130

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travis-ci

Use HTTP Persistent connection

When multiple pages are downloaded HTTP persistent connection should be
used to speed up the whole process.

Benchmark:

```

python3 -m timeit -n 10 -r 1 -vv -s 'import wikipediaapi' 'print("Begin"); w = wikipediaapi.Wikipedia("en"); [w.article(str(i)).summary for i in range(1800, 1850)]'

Before:
raw times: 132.5
10 loops, best of 1: 13.25 sec per loop

After:
raw times: 81.18
10 loops, best of 1: 8.118 sec per loop
```

8 of 8 new or added lines in 1 file covered. (100.0%)

1101 of 1146 relevant lines covered (96.07%)

3.84 hits per line