def __init__(self, url, timeout=None, num_workers=10, **kwargs):
        """
        Initialise an instance.
        :param url: The root URL to use for scraping.
        :param timeout: The timeout, in seconds, to be applied to requests.
                        This defaults to ``None`` (no timeout specified).
        :param num_workers: The number of worker threads you want to do I/O,
                            This defaults to 10.
        :param kwargs: Passed to the superclass.
        """
        super(SimpleScrapingLocator, self).__init__(**kwargs)
        self.base_url = ensure_slash(url)
        self.timeout = timeout
        self._page_cache = {}
        self._seen = set()
        self._to_fetch = queue.Queue()
        self._bad_hosts = set()
        self.skip_externals = False
        self.num_workers = num_workers
        self._lock = threading.RLock()
        # See issue #45: we need to be resilient when the locator is used
        # in a thread, e.g. with concurrent.futures. We can't use self._lock
        # as it is for coordinating our internal threads - the ones created
        # in _prepare_threads.
        self._gplock = threading.RLock()
        self.platform_check = False  # See issue #112

        Initialise an instance.
        :param url: The root URL to use for scraping.
        :param timeout: The timeout, in seconds, to be applied to requests.
                        This defaults to ``None`` (no timeout specified).
        :param num_workers: The number of worker threads you want to do I/O,
                            This defaults to 10.
        :param kwargs: Passed to the superclass.
        
product/gradle-plugin/src/main/python/pip/_vendor/distlib/locators.py