Gevent is magic. Done.

req_benchmark.py

import timeit

import grequests

import requests



def blocking_get():
	url = "http://www.google.com"
	number=100
	answers = [requests.get(url) for i in range(number)]
	return answers

def non_blocking_get():
	url = "http://www.google.com"
	number=100
	holder = (grequests.get(url) for i in range(number))
	answers = grequests.map(holder)
	return answers



print timeit.timeit(blocking_get, number=1)
print timeit.timeit(non_blocking_get, number=1)

blocking: 6.93602085114
non-blocking: 1.83830213547