I am trying to teach myself Python's async functionality. To do so I have built an async web scraper. I would like to limit the total number of connections I have open at once to be a good citizen on servers. I know that semaphore's are a good solution, and the asyncio library has a semaphore class built in. My issue is that Python complains when using yield from
in an async
function as you are combining yield
and await
syntax. Below is the exact syntax I am using...
import asyncio
import aiohttp
sema = asyncio.BoundedSemaphore(5)
async def get_page_text(url):
with (yield from sema):
try:
resp = await aiohttp.request('GET', url)
if resp.status == 200:
ret_val = await resp.text()
except:
raise ValueError
finally:
await resp.release()
return ret_val
Raising this Exception:
File "<ipython-input-3-9b9bdb963407>", line 14
with (yield from sema):
^
SyntaxError: 'yield from' inside async function
Some possible solution I can think of...
- Just use the
@asyncio.coroutine
decorator - Use threading.Semaphore? This seems like it may cause other issues
- Try this in the beta of Python 3.6 for this reason.
I am very new to Python's async functionality so I could be missing something obvious.