Eu queria usar o threading em python para baixar muitas páginas da web e passei pelo seguinte código que usa filas em um dos sites.

coloca um laço infinito enquanto. Cada thread é executada continuamente sem terminar até que todas estejam completas? Estou esquecendo de algo.

#!/usr/bin/env python
import Queue
import threading
import urllib2
import time

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

queue = Queue.Queue()

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

  def run(self):
    while True:
      #grabs host from queue
      host = self.queue.get()

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

      #signals to queue job is done
      self.queue.task_done()

start = time.time()
def main():

  #spawn a pool of threads, and pass them queue instance 
  for i in range(5):
    t = ThreadUrl(queue)
    t.setDaemon(True)
    t.start()

  #populate queue with data   
  for host in hosts:
    queue.put(host)

  #wait on the queue until everything has been processed     
  queue.join()

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