Simple thread pools

[Jacob Friis]

> Things as maximum number of file descriptors and generally speaking IO
> operations and their limits are matters of the underlying OS, not of the
> programming language itself. So show us a way in another language, and then
> we can tell you how to do that in python.

I need to download 150000 files several times every day.
How would you solve that?

> And while using threads to wait for file IO is tempting, its a waste of
> resources.

Any ideas then?

Thanks,
Jacob