DEMO1
import urllib2
import time
hosts = ["http://map.baidu.com", "http://sina.com", "http://taobao.com","http://qq.com"]
start = time.time()
#grabs urls of hosts and prints first 1024 bytes of page
for host in hosts:
url = urllib2.urlopen(host)
print url.read(1024)
print u"Elapsed Time: %s" % (time.time() - start)