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import multiprocessing
import os
import requests

class MultiProcDownloader(object):
def __init__(self, urls):
self.urls = urls

def run(self):
jobs = []
for url in self.urls:
process = multiprocessing.Process(target=self.worker, args=(url,))
jobs.append(process)
process.start()
for job in jobs:
job.join()

def worker(self, url):
fname = os.path.basename(url)
msg = 'Starting download of %s'%fname
print(msg, multiprocessing.current_process().name)
r = requests.get(url)
with open(fname, 'wb') as f:
f.write(r.content)


if __name__=='__main__':
urls = ["http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f1040.pdf",
"http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f1040a.pdf",
"http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f1040ez.pdf",
"http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f1040es.pdf",
"http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f1040sb.pdf"]
downloader = MultiProcDownloader(urls)
downloader.run()