On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 9:36 PM, Philip Semanchuk <phi...@semanchuk.com>wrote:
> > On Jan 5, 2010, at 11:26 PM, aditya shukla wrote: > > Hello people, >> >> I have 5 directories corresponding 5 different urls .I want to download >> images from those urls and place them in the respective directories.I have >> to extract the contents and download them simultaneously.I can extract the >> contents and do then one by one. My questions is for doing it >> simultaneously >> do I have to use threads? >> > > No. You could spawn 5 copies of wget (or curl or a Python program that > you've written). Whether or not that will perform better or be easier to > code, debug and maintain depends on the other aspects of your program(s). > > bye > Philip Obviously, spawning 5 copies of wget is equivalent to starting 5 threads. The answer is 'yes'.
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