import urllib2 import time hosts = ["http://yahoo.com", "http://google.com", "http://amazon.com", "http://ibm.com", "http://apple.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 "Elapsed Time: %s" % (time.time() - start)