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+#! /usr/bin/env python
+# -*- coding: iso-8859-1 -*-
+# vi:ts=4:et
+# $Id$
+
+import sys, select, time
+import pycurl
+
+c1 = pycurl.Curl()
+c2 = pycurl.Curl()
+c3 = pycurl.Curl()
+c1.setopt(c1.URL, "http://www.python.org")
+c2.setopt(c2.URL, "http://curl.haxx.se")
+c3.setopt(c3.URL, "http://slashdot.org")
+c1.body = open("doc1", "wb")
+c2.body = open("doc2", "wb")
+c3.body = open("doc3", "wb")
+c1.setopt(c1.WRITEFUNCTION, c1.body.write)
+c2.setopt(c2.WRITEFUNCTION, c2.body.write)
+c3.setopt(c3.WRITEFUNCTION, c3.body.write)
+
+m = pycurl.CurlMulti()
+m.add_handle(c1)
+m.add_handle(c2)
+m.add_handle(c3)
+
+# Number of seconds to wait for a timeout to happen
+SELECT_TIMEOUT = 10
+
+# Stir the state machine into action
+while 1:
+ ret, num_handles = m.perform()
+ if ret != pycurl.E_CALL_MULTI_PERFORM:
+ break
+
+# Keep going until all the connections have terminated
+while num_handles:
+ # The select method uses fdset internally to determine which file descriptors
+ # to check.
+ m.select(SELECT_TIMEOUT)
+ while 1:
+ ret, num_handles = m.perform()
+ if ret != pycurl.E_CALL_MULTI_PERFORM:
+ break
+
+# Cleanup
+m.remove_handle(c3)
+m.remove_handle(c2)
+m.remove_handle(c1)
+m.close()
+c1.body.close()
+c2.body.close()
+c3.body.close()
+c1.close()
+c2.close()
+c3.close()
+print "http://www.python.org is in file doc1"
+print "http://curl.haxx.se is in file doc2"
+print "http://slashdot.org is in file doc3"
+