multi_wc.py

#! /usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

import urllib
import sys
import os
import subprocess
import re

seed = sys.argv
seed.pop(0)
sum = 0
prog = re.compile('\d+')

for j in seed:
   f = urllib.urlopen(j)
   s = f.read()
   f.close()
   p = subprocess.Popen(['wc','-w'],stdin=subprocess.PIPE,stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
   out, err = p.communicate(s)
   pat = prog.search(out).group()
   nint = int(pat)
   sum += nint

print("Total %d" % (sum))