On Mar 9, 1:25 pm, John Deas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mar 8, 5:47 pm, Gary Herron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > poof65 wrote: > > > For your problem you have to use threads. > > > Not at all true. Thread provide one way to solve this, but another is > > the select function. For this simple case, select() may (or may not) be > > easier to write. Pseudo-code would look something like this: > > > openSockets = list of sockets one per download file: > > while openSockets: > > readySockets = select(openSockets ...) # Identifies sockets with > > data to be read > > for each s in readSockets: > > read from s and do whatever with the data > > if s is at EOF: close and remove s from openSockets > > > That's it. Far easier than threads. > > > Gary Herron > > > > You can have more information here. > > >http://artfulcode.nfshost.com/files/multi-threading-in-python.html > > > > On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 1:11 PM, John Deas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Hi, > > > >> I would like to write a python script that will download a list of > > >> files (mainly mp3s) from Internet. For this, I thought to use urllib, > > >> with > > > >> urlopen("myUrl").read() and then writing the resulting string to a > > >> file > > > >> my problem is that I would like to download several files at the time. > > >> As I have not much experience in programming, could you point me the > > >> easier ways to do this in python ? > > > >> Thanks, > > > >> JD > > >> -- > > >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > > Thank you both for your help. Threads are working for me. However, a > new problem for me is that the url I want to download are in an xml > file (I want to download podcasts), and is not the same as the file > downloaded: > > http://www.sciam.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?e_id=86102326-0B1F-A3D4-74B2... > > will be redirected to download: > > http://podcast.sciam.com/daily/sa_d_podcast_080307.mp3 > > is there a way, knowing the first url to get the second at runtime in > my script ?
Found it: geturl() does the job -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
