skip pycurl if gevent is used

[denik]

pycurl, being a wrapper around C library, blocks the whole process and all green threads rather than the current one.

Unlike urllib2 and requests which are compatible with gevent through monkey patching.

More info about gevent at http://gevent.org

[danielchatfield]

If requests is available it will use that. This would only be an issue of someone couldn't use requests, and I can't think of a reason why that would happen.

[kyleconroy]

Agreed with @danielchatfield, as pycurl won't be used. @denik are you claiming that just importing pycurl blocks with using gevent?

[kyleconroy]

As I haven't heard back, I'm closing this. Pycurl won't be used when gevent is concerned.

[denik]

Agreed with @danielchatfield, as pycurl won't be used. @denik are you claiming that just importing pycurl blocks with using gevent?

if requests is not available, but pycurl is, pycurl will be used and it'll block without a warning.

[kyleconroy]

I'm not sure how that would happen? We explicitly require requests in setup.py. Users have to install PyCurl themselves. So for this to be a problem a user would have to install stripe-python without using pip or easy_install, install PyCurl, and then use gevent. Seems unlikely.