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asynchronous downloading

From	Plumo <richardbp@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Subject	asynchronous downloading
Date	2012-02-22 22:58 -0800
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I want to download content asynchronously. This would be straightforward to do threaded or across processes, but difficult asynchronously so people seem to rely on external libraries (twisted / gevent / eventlet). 

(I would use gevent under different circumstances, but currently need to stick to standard libraries.)

I looked around and found there is little interest in developing a proper HTTP client on asyncore. The best I found stopped development a decade ago: http://sourceforge.net/projects/asynchttp/ 

What do you recommend? 
And why is there poor support for asynchronous execution?

Richard

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asynchronous downloading Plumo <richardbp@gmail.com> - 2012-02-22 22:58 -0800
  Re: asynchronous downloading Justin Ezequiel <justin.mailinglists@gmail.com> - 2012-02-22 23:25 -0800
  Re: asynchronous downloading Mark Hammond <mhammond@skippinet.com.au> - 2012-02-23 22:20 +1100
  Re: asynchronous downloading Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-02-23 03:46 -0800
    Re: asynchronous downloading Plumo <richardbp@gmail.com> - 2012-02-23 16:28 -0800
  Re: asynchronous downloading Richard Baron Penman <richardbp@gmail.com> - 2012-02-24 00:50 +1100
  Re: asynchronous downloading Giampaolo Rodolà <g.rodola@gmail.com> - 2012-02-23 18:31 +0100
    Re: asynchronous downloading Plumo <richardbp@gmail.com> - 2012-02-23 17:10 -0800
    Re: asynchronous downloading Plumo <richardbp@gmail.com> - 2012-02-23 17:10 -0800
      Re: asynchronous downloading Fayaz Yusuf Khan <fayaz.yusuf.khan@gmail.com> - 2012-02-23 18:31 -0800
      Re: asynchronous downloading Giampaolo Rodolà <g.rodola@gmail.com> - 2012-02-24 10:03 +0100
      Re: asynchronous downloading Richard Baron Penman <richardbp@gmail.com> - 2012-02-26 08:44 +1100

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