[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi python community! > First question has to do with threading support. There is the > following simple case: > I have a dictionnary that gets it's values -which are url's-from a > function. Sort of > > dictionnary['1'] = "http://www.google.com"; > dictionnary['2'] = "http://www.python.com"; > .... > > I need to fill in the dictionnary with some url's. If I do it on > the simplest way, it would be like: > > for i in range(20): > dictionnary["%s" % i] = get_urls(args) > > and wait a long long time till it finishes. Can I do it easily with > threads, without having to add too much code? Ideal case would be > if all threads start simultaneously :) > Look at thread.start_new_thread here: http://docs.python.org/lib/module-thread.html You can call a function in a separate thread, and you do not need to write a new class.
(I do not like start_new_thread and I would define classes for this, but you are free to use this feature.) > Now the second question has to do with images retrieval and > manipulation. Which libraries do you propose to work with to > retrieve and resize images from the web? > I would use PIL because it is popular, easy to use, available on most platforms and has few dependencies. Check out http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/ Best, Laszlo -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
