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methane / gist:2185380

Created March 24, 2012 17:28

Tornado Example: Delegating an blocking task to a worker thread pool from an asynchronous request handler

	from time import sleep
	from tornado.httpserver import HTTPServer
	from tornado.ioloop import IOLoop
	from tornado.web import Application, asynchronous, RequestHandler
	from multiprocessing.pool import ThreadPool

	_workers = ThreadPool(10)

	def run_background(func, callback, args=(), kwds={}):
	def _callback(result):