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[Stuart Langridge <stuart.langridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2010-06-02 at 08:05 -0700, Rick Spencer wrote:
> > I'd suggest using gio for downloads, because that's async and won't
> > block the UI.
> > http://www.jonobacon.org/2010/03/15/download-files-async-with-gio-and-python/ is the answer here -- we should encourage people to do as much stuff as possible in an async way (maybe a wrapper library would be good here? http_download(url, callbackfunction) ? )
> > 
> Ah yes. I think we should do that next in the chapter. Get going with
> just some quick code. "Oh! it's easy to do stuff on Ubuntu." Then, "oh,
> I can even make it async pretty easy".

Hm, I think the opposite: let's not even tell people about The Wrong Way
(which blocking the UI is). If gio isn't already as easy as urllib, then
let's make it easier -- quickly.helpers.fetch_url(), perhaps?

sil