Do I have to use threads?

[Philip Semanchuk]

On Jan 6, 2010, at 12:45 AM, Brian J Mingus wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 9:36 PM, Philip Semanchuk  
> <philip at 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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Process != thread