Any python scripts to do parallel downloading?

Jean-Paul Calderone exarkun at divmod.com
Wed Jan 31 15:37:58 EST 2007


On 31 Jan 2007 12:24:21 -0800, Carl Banks <pavlovevidence at gmail.com> wrote:
>Michele Simionato wrote:
>> On Jan 31, 5:23 pm, "Frank Potter" <could.... at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > I want to find a multithreaded downloading lib in python,
>> > can someone recommend one for me, please?
>> > Thanks~
>>
>> Why do you want to use threads for that? Twisted is the
>> obvious solution for your problem,
>
>Overkill?  Just to download a few web pages?  You've got to be
>kidding.

Better "overkill" (whatever that is) than wasting time re-implementing
the same boring thing over and over for no reason.

Jean-Paul



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