Python gevent asynchronous

Question

When I use gevent and it's still synchronous and run time doesn't decrease.

Here is my script:

def fun(i):
    p = subprocess.Popen(['./main', 'data.txt'], stdout=PIPE, stderr=PIPE)
    err = p.communicate()[1]
    p.wait()

def synchronous():
    for i in range(1,10):
        fun(i)

def asynchronous():
    threads = [gevent.spawn(fun, i) for i in xrange(10)]
    gevent.joinall(threads)

By comparing %timeit synchronous() and %timeit asynchronous() , there is little change. And the 'main' is the compiled c++ file and the 'data.txt' is the input file for 'main'.

I guess the problem is that I use subprocess to call a external routine, but I don't know how to solve this problem.

Answer 1

p.wait()

This is making your code synchronous.