Re: Python and asynchronous sockets question

[Jason Ish <lists () unx ca>]

On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 9:06 AM, allison nixon <elsakoo () gmail com> wrote:

> Say I'm writing a broadscanner for a pet project and I accidentally wrote
> the entire thing in Python.
>
> Using asyncore and sockets, the best I can get is 3 http requests per
> second, maybe 10 per second at the very max.  For a scanner this is of
> course, very lame.
>
> My goal is to of course make as many http request as a desktop computer
> will handle, so perhaps 200 per second with whatever number of sockets
> waiting in the background for a response(which I check periodically for a
> response and parse when I get it)
>
> Is there any way I can acheive 200 requests per second without learning
> another programming language?

Its hard to say without seeing the code..  But are you continuing to
connect to other hosts (or do other work) between the call to connect, and
its associated callback handle_connect?

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