asyncio

built-in in python3.4

asyncio的编程模型就是一个消息循环。我们从asyncio模块中直接获取一个EventLoop的引用，然后把需要执行的协程扔到EventLoop中执行，就实现了异步IO。

asyncio for Hello world

import asyncio

@asyncio.coroutine
def hello():
    print("Hello world!")
    # 异步调用asyncio.sleep(1):
    r = yield from asyncio.sleep(1)
    print("Hello again!")

# 获取EventLoop:
loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
# 执行coroutine
loop.run_until_complete(hello())
loop.close()

@asyncio.coroutine mark a generator as coroutine 由于asyncio.sleep()也是一个coroutine，所以线程不会等待asyncio.sleep()，而是直接中断并执行下一个消息循环。当asyncio.sleep()返回时，线程就可以从yield from拿到返回值（此处是None），然后接着执行下一行语句。

我们用Task封装两个coroutine试试：

import threading
import asyncio

@asyncio.coroutine
def hello():
    print('Hello world! (%s)' % threading.currentThread())
    yield from asyncio.sleep(1)
    print('Hello again! (%s)' % threading.currentThread())

loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
tasks = [hello(), hello()]
loop.run_until_complete(asyncio.wait(tasks))
loop.close()

观察执行过程：

Hello world! (<_MainThread(MainThread, started 140735195337472)>)
Hello world! (<_MainThread(MainThread, started 140735195337472)>)
(暂停约1秒)
Hello again! (<_MainThread(MainThread, started 140735195337472)>)
Hello again! (<_MainThread(MainThread, started 140735195337472)>)

我们用asyncio的异步网络连接来获取sina、sohu和163的网站首页：

import asyncio

@asyncio.coroutine
def wget(host):
    print('wget %s...' % host)
    connect = asyncio.open_connection(host, 80)
    reader, writer = yield from connect
    header = 'GET / HTTP/1.0\r\nHost: %s\r\n\r\n' % host
    writer.write(header.encode('utf-8'))
    yield from writer.drain()
    while True:
        line = yield from reader.readline()
        if line == b'\r\n':
            break
        print('%s header > %s' % (host, line.decode('utf-8').rstrip()))
    # Ignore the body, close the socket
    writer.close()

loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
tasks = [wget(host) for host in ['www.sina.com.cn', 'www.sohu.com', 'www.163.com']]
loop.run_until_complete(asyncio.wait(tasks))
loop.close()

Summary

asyncio提供了完善的异步IO支持；

异步操作需要在coroutine中通过yield from完成；

多个coroutine可以封装成一组Task然后并发执行。