On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 6:24 AM, Philip Semanchuk <phi...@semanchuk.com>wrote:
> > On Jan 6, 2010, at 12:45 AM, Brian J Mingus wrote: > > 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'. >> > > ??? > > Process != thread Just like the other nitpicker it is up to you to explain why the differences, and not he similarities, are relevant to this problem.
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