Do I have to use threads?

[Philip Semanchuk]

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