Q: socket error in multi-threaded urlopen

[Jonathan Feinberg]

"Seung-won Hwang" <shwang5 at students.uiuc.edu> writes:

> I'm trying to call urlopen using multiple threads and it gives me
> the following errors. I'm experimenting if I can call hundreds of
> 'urlopen' calls simulataneously. Is there any way to get around this
> 'too many open files' problem in doing so?

You might want to look into the asyncore module, which provides for
socket multiplexing in one process.  Of course, there is no way to
combine the library code from urlopen with the multiplexing code from
asyncore, so you'll have to roll your own protocol handlers.

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