Simple script for faster fetching with urllib2 with exception handling

fetch_url.py

import threading, urllib2
import Queue

def read_url(url, queue):
try:
     data = urllib2.urlopen(url).read()
except urllib2.HTTPError, e:
checksLogger.error('HTTPError = ' + str(e.code))
except urllib2.URLError, e:
checksLogger.error('URLError = ' + str(e.reason))
except httplib.HTTPException, e:
checksLogger.error('HTTPException')
except Exception:
import traceback
checksLogger.error('generic exception: ' + traceback.format_exc())

     print('Fetched %s from %s' % (len(data), url))
     queue.put(data)

def fetch_parallel(list_of_urls):
    result = Queue.Queue()
    threads = [threading.Thread(target=read_url, args = (url,result)) for url in list_of_urls]
    for t in threads:
        t.start()
    for t in threads:
        t.join()
    return result