aiomultiprocess

Take a modern Python codebase to the next level of performance.

On their own, AsyncIO and multiprocessing are useful, but limited: AsyncIO still can't exceed the speed of GIL, and multiprocessing only works on one task at a time. But together, they can fully realize their true potential.

aiomultiprocess presents a simple interface, while running a full AsyncIO event loop on each child process, enabling levels of concurrency never before seen in a Python application. Each child process can execute multiple coroutines at once, limited only by the workload and number of cores available.

Gathering tens of thousands of network requests in seconds is as easy as:

async with Pool() as pool:
    results = await pool.map(<coroutine function>, <items>)

Install

aiomultiprocess requires Python 3.6 or newer. You can install it from PyPI:

$ pip3 install aiomultiprocess

Usage

Most of aiomultiprocess mimics the standard multiprocessing module whenever possible, while accounting for places that benefit from async functionality.

Running your asynchronous jobs on a pool of worker processes is easy:

import asyncio
from aiohttp import request
from aiomultiprocess import Pool

async def get(url):
    async with request("GET", url) as response:
        return await response.text("utf-8")

async def main():
    urls = ["https://jreese.sh", ...]
    async with Pool() as pool:
        async for result in pool.map(get, urls):
            ...  # process result
            
if __name__ == '__main__':
    # Python 3.7
    asyncio.run(main())
    
    # Python 3.6
    # loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
    # loop.run_until_complete(main())

Take a look at the User Guide for more details and examples.

For further context, watch the PyCon US 2018 talk about aiomultiprocess, "Thinking Outside the GIL":

Slides available at Speaker Deck.

License

aiomultiprocess is copyright John Reese, and licensed under the MIT license. I am providing code in this repository to you under an open source license. This is my personal repository; the license you receive to my code is from me and not from my employer. See the LICENSE file for details.