pycurl support python asyncio or async(await)?

[rfyiamcool]

pycurl support python asyncio or async(await)?

[p]

I doubt I will do this but patches are welcome.

[brizzbane]

I know this is old.

This is the issue that pops up when I google 'pycurl asyncio', so that is why I am asking here.

Would pycurl work alright with just putting everything in async def, if the pycurl event loop was hooked up with asyncio?

A few years ago, before asyncio was even implemented I think, I was messing with a project 'pyuv', and used Tornado's (at the time) example of a http client, to hook up pycurls event loop, with pyuv.

You can see here:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/brizzbane/uvcurl/master/uvcurl/httpclient.py

I'm thinking about trying to hook it up with an asyncio event loop (mainly self._multi.setopt(pycurl.M_SOCKETFUNCTION, self._sock_state_cb), if I am remembering correctly).. Should this just work?

I'm still pretty newb to using the native python 3 async stuff. If someone knows right off the bat that I would have issues for some reason, it would save me some time...

I want to use pycurl as opposed to requests for this particular project I'm working on, because it uses non-http requests.

[p]

If you get it working, please share your findings.

[fsbs]

@rfyiamcool @brizzbane @p

Take a look at aiocurl:

handle = aiocurl.Curl()
handle.setopt(aiocurl.URL, 'https://example.com')

await handle.perform()

You can install it with pip install aiocurl.

It uses libcurl's socket interface to make asyncio's event loop drive the transfers.

[p]

@fsbs That's cool, if you'd like to add a link to pycurl readme/documentation to your project please send a PR.