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Wikipedia Picture of the Day examples
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These examples use various asynchronous programming techniques to download 
images and metadata from the English Wikipedia `Picture of the Day`_ archive.

.. _Picture of the Day: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/Archive


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Timings
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``sync.py``
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    $ time python sync.py 2014-06 -q 5
    5 images downloaded (167.8 Kbytes total)

    real    0m6.272s
    user    0m0.065s
    sys 0m0.039s

    $ time python sync.py 2014-06 -q 5
    5 images downloaded (167.8 Kbytes total)

    real    0m5.447s
    user    0m0.068s
    sys 0m0.040s

    $ time python sync.py 2014-06 -q 5
    5 images downloaded (167.8 Kbytes total)

    real    0m6.314s
    user    0m0.068s
    sys 0m0.040s