cheewai/py3-aiohttp repository overview

⁠Asynchronous HTTP server in Docker

This project aims to experiment with lightweight HTTP server based on Python 3.5+ asynchronous I/O e.g. aiohttp⁠ suitable for use as REST API server.

The operative word for this repo is experiment because Python 3 asyncio is still in a state of flux somewhat⁠. As a point of interest, David Beazley's Curio⁠ does it faster and simpler!

It includes asyncio-compatible libraries to connect to the following servers:

• PostgreSQL asyncpg (unlike psycopg2, no mogrify() and named parameters)
• RabbitMQ aioamqp
• RethinkDB rethinkdb.set_loop_type("asyncio")
• MySQL aiomysql

A comprehensive compilation of compatible Python libraries can be found here⁠.

In the meantime, informative benchmarks of several Python web frameworks can be found here⁠

⁠CAVEAT

Beware of the version of Python 3 interpreter you use and set your PYTHONPATH accordingly.

• /usr/bin/python3 is version 3.4+
• /usr/local/bin/python3 is version 3.5+
• Just before importing packages installed using apt-get, e.g. yaml, shapely, etc. do this in your code,

sys.path.append('/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages')