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Multithreading requests in Python
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from concurrent.futures import ThreadPoolExecutor | |
from http.client import HTTPException | |
from urllib import request | |
from typing import Union, Dict, Any, List | |
def get_request_task(url: str) -> Union[List[Dict[str, Any]], None]: | |
try: | |
contents = None | |
with request.urlopen(url) as response: | |
contents = response.read() | |
return contents | |
except HTTPException: | |
return None | |
with ThreadPoolExecutor() as executor: | |
for result in executor.map(get_request_task, [ | |
"https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts", | |
"https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/comments", | |
"https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/albums" | |
]): | |
if result is None: | |
print("Something terrible has happened!") | |
else: | |
print(result) |
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