asynchronizer 0.1.0a1

A simple module to make functions asynchronous

Asynchronizer is simple module that can be used to run multiple functions asynchronously. To convert a function, you just need to add a decorator @asynchronize to the function. This project is still in development, so report any bugs here. For examples, see the examples folder

Contents

• Requirements

• Installation

• How to use

  • Basic use

  • Things to keep in mind

  • Advanced use

• Contributing

• License

• Copyright

Requirements

• python 2.x or python 3.x

Installation

Asynchronizer can be installed using pip:

pip install asynchronizer

How to use

Basic use

Suppose you have a function like this:

import requests

def send_requests():
    r = requests.get('http://httpbin.org/get')
    print r.status_code

for _ in range(20):
    send_requests()

You can modify it like this to make it asynchronous:

import requests
from asynchronizer import asynchronize, startPool

@asynchronize
def send_requests():
    r = requests.get('http://httpbin.org/get')
    print r.status_code

for _ in range(20):
    send_requests()

startPool()

Things to keep in mind

• The function startPool() is necessary. If startPool() is not present, none of the asynchronous functions will run.

• The function startPool() is also a blocking function, meaning that the execution of your script will pause here till all the async functions called before this are finished. This is why it should usually be added at the end of your script

• The decorated functions are async to each other, but the code inside the functions is synchronous, which means this is wrong:

  # wrong way
  @asynchronize
  def send_requests():
      for _ in range(20):
          r = requests.get('http://httpbin.org/get')
  
  send_requests()

  and this is the correct way:

  # correct way
  @asynchronize
  def send_requests():
      r = requests.get('http://httpbin.org/get')
  
  for _ in range(20):
      send_requests()

• Instead of returning values from your functions, send them to a callback. For example:

  @asynchronize
  def send_requests():
      r = requests.get('http://httpbin.org/get')
      parse(r.text)
      # instead of return r.text

Advanced use

• If you want to modify how many functions should be called concurrently, just add setWorkers(n) at the start of your script, with n being the number of concurrent threads. Default is 32.

• To assign priority to a specific function call, add priority=n to the parameters of the function call, with n being the priority you want to set. For Example: func(param1,param2,param3,priority=2)

Contributing

If you want to contribute to this project, feel free to send a Pull Request to Github

To report any bugs or request new features, head over to the Issues page

License

Licensed under The MIT License (MIT).

Copyright

Copyright (c) 2016 Arsh