using c extension library with gevent

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I use celery for doing snmp requests with easysnmp library which have a C interface. The problem is lots of time is being wasted on I/O. I know that I should use eventlet or gevent in this kind of situations, but I don't know how to handle patching a third party library when it uses C extensions.

What have you tried so far? What specific problem(s) are you having? — dirn, May 28 '18 at 15:52
I don't know how to make easysnmp asynchronous. I have tried nothing specific. — Mehdi Pourfar, May 29 '18 at 11:19

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered May 29 '18 at 13:14

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Eventlet and gevent can't monkey-patch C code.

You can offload blocking calls to OS threads with eventlet.tpool.execute(library.io_func)

answered May 29 '18 at 13:14

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