download limit

[Mathieu Prevot]

Hi,

I have a multithreaded script that  mainly creates several wget
processes to download files. I would like to check/see and eventually
limit the bandwidth of the pool of processes. One way to do this is to
change the number of wget instances, but it's a workaround.

What do you recommend to do the following in python:
1) know the bitrate at the script scale
2) control, and limit or not this bitrate

Thanks,
Mathieu