Decorator Recipe: Custom Event Binding ====================================== Step 0 ------ .. sourcecode:: python from threading import Thread import time class Downloader(object): def __init__(self, url_list): self.url_list = url_list self.done_callback = None def start_downloads(self): thread = Thread(target=self.download_all) thread.start() def download_all(self): count = 0 start_time = time.time() for url in self.url_list: print 'Downloading', url time.sleep(0.3) count += 1 end_time = time.time() if self.done_callback: self.done_callback(count, end_time - start_time) if __name__ == '__main__': url_list = xrange(1, 13) downloader = Downloader(url_list) def ondone(num_downloaded, time_elapsed): print "Fetched", num_downloaded, "files in", time_elapsed, "seconds" downloader.done_callback = ondone downloader.start_downloads() print 'Waiting for the result...' Expected result:: Waiting for the result... Downloading 1 Downloading 2 Downloading 3 Downloading 4 Downloading 5 Downloading 6 Downloading 7 Downloading 8 Downloading 9 Downloading 10 Downloading 11 Downloading 12 Fetched 12 files in 3.60899996758 seconds Solution: `downloader0.py `_ `Go to next step `_