In what way is grequests asynchronous?

Question

I\'ve been using the python requests library for some time, and recently had a need to make a request asynchronously, meaning I would like to send off the HTTP request, have

Answer 1

.map() is meant to run retrieval of several URLs in parallel, and will indeed wait for these tasks to complete (gevent.joinall(jobs)) is called).

Use .send() instead to spawn jobs, using a Pool instance:

req = grequests.get('http://www.codehenge.net/blog', hooks=dict(response=print_res))
job = grequests.send(req, grequests.Pool(1))

for i in range(10):
    print i

Without the pool the .send() call will block still, but only for the gevent.spawn() call it executes.