On May 3, 1:40 pm, "Diez B. Roggisch" <de...@nospam.web.de> wrote: > grocery_stocker schrieb: > > > > > On May 3, 1:16 pm, "Diez B. Roggisch" <de...@nospam.web.de> wrote: > >> grocery_stocker schrieb: > > >>> Let's say there is a new zip file with updated information every 30 > >>> minutes on a remote website. Now, I wanna connect to this website > >>> every 30 minutes, download the file, extract the information, and then > >>> have the program search the file search for certain items. > >>> Would it be better to use threads to break this up? I have one thread > >>> download the data and then have another to actually process the data . > >>> Or would it be better to use fork? > >> Neither. Why do you think you need concurrency at all? > > > Okay, here is what was going through my mind. I'm a 56k dialup modem. > > What happens it takes me 15 minutes to download the file? Now let's > > say during those 15 minutes, the program needs to parse the data in > > the existing file. > > Is this an exercise in asking 20 hypothetical questions? >
No. This the prelude to me writing a real life python program. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
