Multiple threaded download streams?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2006-02-25, gjzusenet at gmail.com <gjzusenet at gmail.com> wrote:

> Though Python supports threading, I think it is limited to
> python code - as soon as you issue a command that uses an
> external (C?) module, all of your python threads hang until
> this command returns. Is that true?

No.  Not unless the C modules is broken.

> I'm using urllib2 to download many files, and I have a double
> problem:
>
> 1. downloading all of them is painfully slow since it's serial
>    - one has to finish before the next request gets sent.

Then don't do it that way.

> 2. my GUI becomes non responsive during the downloads - major
>    problem!

Use a separate thread for downloading.

> Is there any way to work around that?

Yes.  Use threads.

> I want to run multiple download streams, in parallel, and while keeping
> my program responsive.

Then do it that way.

> Are there alternative modules that I can use for that?

And what, exactly, didn't work right when you tried the
threading module?

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