Any python scripts to do parallel downloading?

Carl J. Van Arsdall cvanarsdall at mvista.com
Wed Jan 31 16:52:35 EST 2007


Jean-Paul Calderone wrote:
> 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.
>   

How is that a waste of time?  I wrote the script to do it in 10 lines.  
What is a waste of time is learning a whole new technology/framework to 
do a simple task that can be scripted in 4 minutes.

-c

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