i asked this question before on http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2489780/how-to-do-asynchronous-http-requests-with-epoll-and-python-3-1 but without a definitive answer as yet.
can someone help me out? i want to do several simple http GET and POST requests in the same process using Python 3.1 without using threading. the original post: there is an interesting page [http://scotdoyle.com/python-epoll- howto.html][1] about how to do asnchronous / non-blocking / AIO http serving in python 3. there is the [tornado web server][2] which does include a non-blocking http client. i have managed to port parts of the server to python 3.1, but the implementation of the client requires [pyCurl][3] and [seems to have problems][4] (with one participant stating how ‘Libcurl is such a pain in the neck’, and looking at the incredibly ugly pyCurl page i doubt pyCurl will arrive in py3+ any time soon). now that epoll is available in the standard library, it should be possible to do asynchronous http requests out of the box with python. i really do not want to use asyncore or whatnot; epoll has a reputation for being the ideal tool for the task, and it is part of the python distribution, so using anything but epoll for non-blocking http is highly counterintuitive (prove me wrong if you feel like it). oh, and i feel threading is horrible. no threading. i use [stackless] [5]. *people further interested in the topic of asynchronous http should not miss out on this [talk by peter portante at PyCon2010][6]; also of interest is [the keynote][7], where speaker antonio rodriguez at one point emphasizes the importance of having up-to-date web technology libraries right in the standard library.* [1]: http://scotdoyle.com/python-epoll-howto.html [2]: http://www.tornadoweb.org/ [3]: http://pycurl.sourceforge.net/ [4]: http://groups.google.com/group/python-tornado/browse_thread/thread/276059a076593266/c49e8f834497271e?lnk=gst&q=httpclient+trouble+with+epoll#c49e8f834497271e [5]: http://stackless.com/ [6]: http://python.mirocommunity.org/video/1501/pycon-2010-demystifying-non-bl [7]: http://python.mirocommunity.org/video/1605/pycon-2010-keynote-relentlessl -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
