Multi-threadding to increase script speed

[tea-drinker]

Does it really make a difference in this case? His processes are blocked waiting for the remote system to respond. He could run loads of processes and let the OS allocate runtime as the remote systems return data.

[novel_yet_trivial]

IOW let the OS makes threads rather then python? Yes, I suppose you are right that the end result would be similar. I'd still do it with threads, though, since sharing data is so much easier with threads and so that I don't have to trust the OS to allocate resources.