High performance asynchronous Python WSGI Web Server
Project description
What’s this
This is a high performance python wsgi web server.
Thus this is yet an another asynchronous web server like gevent.
And meinheld is a WSGI compliant web server. (PEP333 and PEP3333 supported)
You can also join us in meinheld mailing list and #meinheld on freenode
Requirements
meinheld requires Python 2.x >= 2.6 or Python 3.x >= 3.2 . and greenlet == 0.4.0.
meinheld supports Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X.
Installation
Install from pypi:
$ easy_install -ZU meinheld
Install from source:
$ python setup.py install
meinheld supports gunicorn.
To install gunicorn (only python 2.x):
$ easy_install -ZU gunicorn
Basic Usage
simple wsgi app:
from meinheld import server def hello_world(environ, start_response): status = '200 OK' res = "Hello world!" response_headers = [('Content-type','text/plain'),('Content-Length',str(len(res)))] start_response(status, response_headers) return [res] server.listen(("0.0.0.0", 8000)) server.run(hello_world)
with gunicorn. user worker class “egg:meinheld#gunicorn_worker” or “meinheld.gmeinheld.MeinheldWorker”:
$ gunicorn --workers=2 --worker-class="egg:meinheld#gunicorn_worker" gunicorn_test:app
Continuation
meinheld provides a simple continuation API (based on greenlet).
To enable continuations, use ContinuationMiddleware. get Continuation from wsgi environ.
Continuation objects have two very interesting methods, suspend and resume.
For example:
from meinheld import server from meinheld import middleware def app(environ, start_response): ... #get Continuation c = environ.get(middleware.CONTINUATION_KEY, None) ... if condtion: waiters.append(c) #suspend c.suspend() else: for c in waiters: # resume suspend function c.resume() ... server.listen(("0.0.0.0", 8000)) server.run(middleware.ContinuationMiddleware(hello_world))
For more info see http://github.com/mopemope/meinheld/tree/master/example/chat/
Websocket
meinheld support Websockets. use WebSocketMiddleware.
For example:
from flask import Flask, render_template, request from meinheld import server, middleware SECRET_KEY = 'development key' DEBUG=True app = Flask(__name__) app.config.from_object(__name__) participants = set() @app.route('/') def index(): return render_template('websocket_chat.html') @app.route('/chat') def chat(): print request.environ ws = request.environ.get('wsgi.websocket') participants.add(ws) try: while True: print "ws.wait()..." m = ws.wait() print "recv msg %s" % m if m is None: break for p in participants: print "send message %s" % m p.send(m) finally: participants.remove(ws) return "" if __name__ == "__main__": server.listen(("0.0.0.0", 8000)) server.run(middleware.WebSocketMiddleware(app))
Patching
meinheld provides a few monkeypatches.
Socket
This patch replaces the standard socket module.
For Example:
from meinheld import patch patch.patch_all()
For more info see http://github.com/mopemope/meinheld/tree/master/example/patch/
Performance
For parsing HTTP requests, meinheld uses Ryan Dahl’s http-parser library.
(see https://github.com/joyent/http-parser)
It is built around the high performance event library picoev.
(see http://developer.cybozu.co.jp/kazuho/2009/08/picoev-a-tiny-e.html)
sendfile
meinheld uses sendfile(2), over wgsi.file_wrapper.
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