Threading in python using queue

Question

I wanted to use threading in python to download lot of webpages and went through the following code which uses queues in one of the website.

it puts a infinite while

Answer 1

I don't think Queue is necessary in this case. Using only Thread:

import threading, urllib2, time

hosts = ["http://yahoo.com", "http://google.com", "http://amazon.com",
"http://ibm.com", "http://apple.com"]

class ThreadUrl(threading.Thread):
    """Threaded Url Grab"""
    def __init__(self, host):
        threading.Thread.__init__(self)
        self.host = host

    def run(self):
        #grabs urls of hosts and prints first 1024 bytes of page
        url = urllib2.urlopen(self.host)
        print url.read(1024)

start = time.time()
def main():
    #spawn a pool of threads
    for i in range(len(hosts)):
        t = ThreadUrl(hosts[i])
        t.start()

main()
print "Elapsed Time: %s" % (time.time() - start)