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uvloop is a fast, drop-in replacement of the built-in asyncio
event loop. uvloop is implemented in Cython and uses libuv
under the hood.
Read more about uvloop here:
http://magic.io/blog/uvloop-blazing-fast-python-networking/
Installation
------------
uvloop is available on PyPI, so you can simply use pip::
$ pip install uvloop
Using uvloop
------------
To make asyncio use uvloop, you can install the uvloop event
loop policy::
import asyncio
import uvloop
asyncio.set_event_loop_policy(uvloop.EventLoopPolicy())
Or, alternatively, you can create an instance of the loop
manually, using::
loop = uvloop.new_event_loop()
asyncio.set_event_loop(loop)
Development of uvloop
---------------------
To build uvloop, you'll need ``Cython`` and Python 3.5. The best way
is to create a virtual env, so that you'll have ``cython`` and
``python`` commands pointing to the correct tools.
1. ``git clone --recursive git@github.com:MagicStack/uvloop.git``
2. ``cd uvloop``
3. ``make``
4. ``make test``