What is the fastest way to do 400 HTTP requests using requests library?

[Tony van der Hoff]

On 05/01/16 00:51, Ian Kelly wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 4:38 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:
>> On Tue, 5 Jan 2016 07:50 am, livemsn22 at gmail.com wrote:
>>
>>> So what is the fastest way to make 400 HTTP requests using "requests"
>>> library and also using tor proxy?
>>
>>
>> Since this will be I/O bound, not CPU bound, probably use separate threads.
>>
>> Push the 400 requests into a queue, then create N threads, where N will need
>> to be determined by experiment, but will probably be something like 4 or 8,
>> and let each thread pop a request from the queue as needed.
>>
>> Are you experienced with threads? Do you need further information about
>> using threads and queues?
> 
> Also see the concurrent.futures module in the standard library, which
> makes this sort of setup very simple to implement.
> 
Why would someone want to make 400 HTTP requests in a short time?


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