Sanic

Sanic is a Flask-like Python 3.5+ web server that's written to go fast. It's based on the work done by the amazing folks at magicstack, and was inspired by this article: https://magic.io/blog/uvloop-blazing-fast-python-networking/.

On top of being Flask-like, Sanic supports async request handlers. This means you can use the new shiny async/await syntax from Python 3.5, making your code non-blocking and speedy.

Benchmarks

All tests were run on an AWS medium instance running ubuntu, using 1 process. Each script delivered a small JSON response and was tested with wrk using 100 connections. Pypy was tested for Falcon and Flask but did not speed up requests.

Server	Implementation	Requests/sec	Avg Latency
Sanic	Python 3.5 + uvloop	33,342	2.96ms
Wheezy	gunicorn + meinheld	20,244	4.94ms
Falcon	gunicorn + meinheld	18,972	5.27ms
Bottle	gunicorn + meinheld	13,596	7.36ms
Flask	gunicorn + meinheld	4,988	20.08ms
Kyoukai	Python 3.5 + uvloop	3,889	27.44ms
Aiohttp	Python 3.5 + uvloop	2,979	33.42ms
Tornado	Python 3.5	2,138	46.66ms

Hello World

fromsanicimportSanicfromsanic.responseimportjsonapp=Sanic(__name__)
@app.route("/")asyncdeftest(request):
returnjson({"hello": "world"})
app.run(host="0.0.0.0", port=8000)

Installation

• python -m pip install sanic

Documentation

• Getting started
• Request Data
• Routing
• Middleware
• Exceptions
• Blueprints
• Cookies
• Static Files
• Deploying
• Contributing
• License

TODO:

• Streamed file processing
• File output
• Examples of integrations with 3rd-party modules
• RESTful router

Limitations:

• No wheels for uvloop and httptools on Windows :(

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