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+import sys
+from eventlet.green import socket
+from eventlet.green import time
+from eventlet.api import spawn
+
+def client():
+    # using domain name directly is of course possible too
+    # this is a test to see that dns lookups happen simultaneously too
+    ip = socket.gethostbyname('www.google.com')
+    c = socket.socket()
+    c.connect((ip, 80))
+    c.send('GET /\r\n\r\n')
+    print c.recv(1024)
+
+
+for x in range(5):
+    # note that spawn doesn't switch to new greenlet immediately.
+    spawn(client)
+
+# the execution ends with the main greenlet exit (by design), so we need to give control
+# to other greenlets for some time here.
+time.sleep(1)
+sys.stdout.flush()