Hello. Though Python supports threading, I think it is limited to python code - as soon as you issue a command that uses an external (C?) module, all of your python threads hang until this command returns. Is that true? I'm using urllib2 to download many files, and I have a double problem: 1. downloading all of them is painfully slow since it's serial - one has to finish before the next request gets sent. 2. my GUI becomes non responsive during the downloads - major problem!
Is there any way to work around that? I want to run multiple download streams, in parallel, and while keeping my program responsive. Are there alternative modules that I can use for that? Any ideas? Thanks a lot! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
