Well, thanks to everyone's help I was actually able to implement concurrency using the threading module. Thanks Mitchell, Sorin and Robert.

Trouble is, it's a bit unreliable. Sometimes the script hangs, sometimes it just returns two results, sometimes just one. I'll post it in it's entirety, so anyone who wants can work off this script. If anyone implements this reliably, please lmk.

http://rafb.net/p/IjT2iG74.html

<code> from time import gmtime, strftime, sleep from boto.sdb.connection import SDBConnection import threading import time import random

# Start time print 'Start %s' % strftime("%H:%M:%S ", gmtime()) print

# Connect to amazon database conn = SDBConnection() items = conn.get_domain('items')

# Results list results = []

class SimpleThread(threading.Thread): def __init__(self, itemname): '''Initialize thread by setting the itemname for the aws sdb object we want to get''' threading.Thread.__init__(self, name=itemname) self.itemname = itemname def run(self): '''Get item helper''' global items, results # Get item from database item = items.get_item(self.itemname) print 'got %s' % str(item) # Append item to results results.append(item) time.sleep(random.random())

# Get all items threads = [] for itemname in items: thread = SimpleThread(itemname) thread.start() threads.append(thread) # Now we wait for them to finish. for thread in threads: thread.join() print "All threads finished"

# End time print print 'End %s' % strftime("%H:%M:%S ", gmtime()) </code>

On Jan 17, 6:14 pm, "Robert Brewer" <rwb...@gmail.com> wrote: