gevent_httplib2_test.py

from gevent import monkey; monkey.patch_socket()

import gevent
import httplib2

from gevent import queue
from time import time

def worker(q):
        h = httplib2.Http(timeout=0.1)
        while True:
                url, return_q = q.get()
                t = time()
                print 'getting', url
                resp, content = h.request(url, "GET")
                return_q.put((url, resp, content, time()-t))

req_q = queue.Queue()
rsp_q = queue.Queue()

urls = ['http://localhost/~jd/sleep.php?ms=400', 'http://localhost/~jd/sleep.php?ms=200', 
        'http://localhost/~jd/sleep.php?ms=100']

for url in urls:
        gevent.spawn(worker, req_q)

for url in urls:
        req_q.put((url, rsp_q))

count = len(urls)
while count:
        url, resp, content, dt = rsp_q.get()
        print url, dt
        count -= 1

gistfile2.txt

(jd@orchid) /home/jd> python26 gevent_httplib2_test.py 
getting http://localhost/~jd/sleep.php?ms=400
getting http://localhost/~jd/sleep.php?ms=200
getting http://localhost/~jd/sleep.php?ms=100
http://localhost/~jd/sleep.php?ms=100 0.102897882462
http://localhost/~jd/sleep.php?ms=200 0.202988147736
http://localhost/~jd/sleep.php?ms=400 0.411028146744