Multiple (asynchronous) connections with urllib2 or other http library?

Question

I have code like this.

for p in range(1,1000):
    result = False
    while result is False:
        ret = urllib2.Request('http://server/?'+str(p))
        try:
            result = process(urllib2.urlopen(ret).read())
        except (urllib2.HTTPError, urllib2.URLError):
            pass
    results.append(result)

I would like to make two or three request at the same time to accelerate this. Can I use urllib2 for this, and how? If not which other library should I use? Thanks.

Answer 1

You can use asynchronous IO to do this.

requests + gevent = grequests

GRequests allows you to use Requests with Gevent to make asynchronous HTTP Requests easily.

import grequests

urls = [
    'http://www.heroku.com',
    'http://tablib.org',
    'http://httpbin.org',
    'http://python-requests.org',
    'http://kennethreitz.com'
]

rs = (grequests.get(u) for u in urls)
grequests.map(rs)