Async support

[acc-to-learn]

Hi!

Would be awesome to have asyncio support 😄

Cheers!

[oschwald]

Are you looking for asyncio support for the database reader or the web service client?

[acc-to-learn]

@oschwald for web service client

[oschwald]

Thanks for clarifying. I agree it would make sense there.

[DustinTheGreat]

I would be willing to rewrite it bc my program is asynchronous and relies on this.
But if I wanted to couldn't I just take the database reader and make it async pretty easily? I know that the web client would have to be rewritten to not use requests.

[oschwald]

None of the file IO in the database reader is async. I am not sure there is that much to gain by making async unless you are forced to use the pure Python implementation in file mode.

[DustinTheGreat]

So If i needed to retrieve geoip info with my async function would recommend just downloading DB and querying it within?

[oschwald]

I would recommend using the database with the C extension.