On Feb 1, 9:20 am, Jean-Paul Calderone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 1 Feb 2007 06:14:40 -0800, Carl Banks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > >On Jan 31, 3:37 pm, Jean-Paul Calderone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On 31 Jan 2007 12:24:21 -0800, Carl Banks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> >Michele Simionato wrote: > >> >> On Jan 31, 5:23 pm, "Frank Potter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. > > >"I need to download some web pages in parallel." > > >"Here's tremendously large and complex framework. Download, install, > >and learn this large and complex framework. Then you can write your > >very simple throwaway script with ease." > > >Is the twisted solution even shorter? Doing this with threads I'm > >thinking would be on the order of 20 lines of code. > > The /already written/ solution I linked to in my original response was five > lines shorter than that.
And I suppose "re-implementing the same boring thing over and over" is ok if it's 15 lines but is too much to bear if it's 20 (irrespective of the additional large framework the former requires). Carl Banks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
