Multiple loops with asyncio

Question

Is it possible to have multiple loops with asyncio? If the response is yes how can I do that? My use case is: * I extract urls from a list of websites in async * For each "sub url list", I would crawl them in async/

Example to extract urls:

import asyncio
import aiohttp
from suburls import extractsuburls

@asyncio.coroutine
def extracturls(url):
    subtasks = []
    response = yield from aiohttp.request('GET', url)
    suburl_list = yield from response.text()
    for suburl in suburl_list:
        subtasks.append(asyncio.Task(extractsuburls(suburl)))
     loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
     loop.run_until_complete(asyncio.gather(*subtasks))

 if __name__ == '__main__':
     urls_list = ['http://example1.com', 'http://example2.com']
     for url in url_list: 
          subtasks.append(asyncio.Task(extractsuburls(url)))  
     loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
     loop.run_until_complete(asyncio.gather(*subtasks))
     loop.close()

If I execute this code I'll have an error when python will try to launch the second loop witch says that a loop is already running.

P.S: my module "extractsuburls" uses aiohttp to perform web request.

EDIT:

Well, I've try this solution:

import asyncio
import aiohttp
from suburls import extractsuburls

@asyncio.coroutine
def extracturls( url ):
    subtasks = []
    response = yield from aiohttp.request('GET', url)
    suburl_list = yield from response.text()
    jobs_loop = asyncio.new_event_loop()
    for suburl in suburl_list:
        subtasks.append(asyncio.Task(extractsuburls(suburl)))
     asyncio.new_event_loop(jobs_loop)
     jobs_loop.run_until_complete(asyncio.gather(*subtasks))
     jobs_loop.close()

 if __name__ == '__main__':
     urls_list = ['http://example1.com', 'http://example2.com']
     for url in url_list: 
          subtasks.append(asyncio.Task(extractsuburls(url)))  
     loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
     loop.run_until_complete(asyncio.gather(*subtasks))
     loop.close()

But I've this error: loop argument must agree with Future

Any idea?

Answer 1

You don't need several event loops, just use yield from gather(*subtasks) in extracturls() coroutine:

import asyncio
import aiohttp
from suburls import extractsuburls

@asyncio.coroutine
def extracturls(url):
    subtasks = []
    response = yield from aiohttp.request('GET', url)
    suburl_list = yield from response.text()
    for suburl in suburl_list:
        subtasks.append(extractsuburls(suburl))
    yield from asyncio.gather(*subtasks)

 if __name__ == '__main__':
     urls_list = ['http://example1.com', 'http://example2.com']
     for url in url_list: 
          subtasks.append(extractsuburls(url))
     loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
     loop.run_until_complete(asyncio.gather(*subtasks))
     loop.close()

As result you get waiting for subtasks until extracturls finished.