flask async response

Gevent monkey patch makes requests to react asynchronous.

Environment: mac OS 10.11.5, python 3.5.2, gevent==1.1.2, requests==2.12.4

Example:

from flask import Flask

from gevent.pywsgi import WSGIServer
from gevent import monkey

import requests
# need to patch sockets to make requests async
monkey.patch_all()

app = Flask(__name__)  # pylint: disable=invalid-name
app.debug = True


@app.route('/test')
def test(requests_counter=[0]):  # pylint: disable=dangerous-default-value
    """Asynchronous non-blocking streaming of relatively large (14.5MB) JPG
    of Seattle from wikimedia commons.
    """
    requests_counter[0] += 1
    request_num = requests_counter[0]
    url = 'http://www.google.com'
    app.logger.debug('started %d', request_num)
    rsp = requests.get(url)
    app.logger.debug('finish %d', request_num)

    return rsp.text


def main():
    http = WSGIServer(('', 5000), app.wsgi_app)
    http.serve_forever()


if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

Result:

started 1

started 2

started 3

started 4

started 5

started 6

finish 4

finish 5

finish 3

finish 6

finish 1

finish 2