"""Spawn multiple workers and collect their results. Demonstrates how to use eventlet.green package and proc module. """ from eventlet import proc from eventlet.green import socket # this example works with both standard eventlet hubs and with twisted-based hub # uncomment the following line to use twisted hub #from twisted.internet import reactor def geturl(url): c = socket.socket() ip = socket.gethostbyname(url) c.connect((ip, 80)) print '%s connected' % url c.send('GET /\r\n\r\n') return c.recv(1024) urls = ['www.google.com', 'www.yandex.ru', 'www.python.org'] jobs = [proc.spawn(geturl, x) for x in urls] print 'spawned %s jobs' % len(jobs) # collect the results from workers results = proc.waitall(jobs) # Note, that any exception in the workers will be reraised by waitall # unless trap_errors argument specifies otherwise for url, result in zip(urls, results): print '%s: %s' % (url, repr(result)[:50])