non blocking HTTP GET

multi.py

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
from datetime import datetime
import multiprocessing, time, urllib2

class Browser(object):

    def __init__(self):
        self.p = None

    def request(self, s):
        if self.p and self.p.is_alive():
            print 'Kill ' + str(self.p.pid)
            self.p.terminate()
        self.p = multiprocessing.Process(target=self.fetch, args=(s,))
        self.p.start()

    def fetch(self, s):
        print '--------------------'
        print s
        print datetime.now()
        urllib2.urlopen('http://desktop/neko').read() # prend 5s...
        print 'Response OK ' + s
        print datetime.now()

b = Browser()
b.request('first')
time.sleep(3)
b.request('second')
time.sleep(10)
b.request('third')

print 'Terminé'