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+A Java-style futures package for Python
+
+This package is described in [PEP-3148](http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3148/) and is included in Python 3.2.
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+See the [Python documentation](http://docs.python.org/dev/library/concurrent.futures.html) for a full description.
+
+[Python 2.6+ Releases](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/futures)
+
+[Python 3.0 and 3.1 Releases](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/futures3)
+
+# Example (Python 2.6) #
+```
+import futures
+import urllib2
+
+URLS = ['http://www.foxnews.com/',
+ 'http://www.cnn.com/',
+ 'http://europe.wsj.com/',
+ 'http://www.bbc.co.uk/',
+ 'http://some-made-up-domain.com/']
+
+def load_url(url, timeout):
+ return urllib2.urlopen(url, timeout=timeout).read()
+
+with futures.ThreadPoolExecutor(max_workers=5) as executor:
+ future_to_url = dict((executor.submit(load_url, url, 60), url)
+ for url in URLS)
+
+ for future in futures.as_completed(future_to_url):
+ url = future_to_url[future]
+ if future.exception() is not None:
+ print '%r generated an exception: %s' % (url,
+ future.exception())
+ else:
+ print '%r page is %d bytes' % (url, len(future.result()))
+```
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