MySQL Racing PHP against Python with Gevent and SQLAlchemy

query_test.php

<?php
//read in file
$queries = file('homepage_queries.txt');

$conns = array();
$connList = '';
$queryCount = 0;

//start timer
$start = microtime(true);
//loop queries
foreach($queries as $queryRaw) {
    $queryArr = explode('|', $queryRaw);
    $dsn = $queryArr[0];
    $query = $queryArr[1];
    if(!$conns[$dsn] || !$conns[$dsn]->ping()) {
        $conns[$dsn] = new mysqli(
            'localhost',
            'user',
            '',
            $dsn,
            '3306'
        );
        $connList .= $dsn . ', ';
        if (mysqli_connect_error()) {
            die('Connect Error (' . mysqli_connect_errno() . ') '
                    . mysqli_connect_error());
        }

    }
    if($query) {
        $data = $conns[$dsn]->query($query);
        $queryCount++;
    }

}
$time = microtime(true) - $start;
//end timer

//display output
echo "<pre>";
echo "duration: " . $time . "\n";
echo "connections: " . $connList . "\n";
echo "queries: " . $queryCount;

query_test.py

import time
from flask import Flask
from sqlalchemy import create_engine, text
import gevent
import gevent.monkey
gevent.monkey.patch_all()

app = Flask(__name__)
conns = {}
connList = []
queries = 0


def run_query(query, db_name):
    global conns, connList, queries
    q = text(query)
    con = conns[db_name].connect()
    con.execute(q)
    con.close()

    queries = queries + 1


@app.route("/")
def test_queries():
    """
    queries.txt contains queries in the format of:
    dbname1|select foo ...
    dbname2|select bar ...
    ...
    """
    global queries
    f = open('homepage_queries.txt', 'r')
    queries = 0
    threads = []
    output = '<pre>'
    start = time.time()
    for line in f:
        parsed = line.split('|')
        #is dsn connected?
        db_name = parsed[0]
        query = 'select 1'  # parsed[1].strip()
        if db_name not in conns:
            conns[db_name] = create_engine(
                'mysql+mysqlconnector://gamespot@c17-gs-dev1-new.cnet.com:3306/' + db_name,
                max_overflow=-1
            )
            connList.append(db_name)
        threads.append(gevent.spawn(run_query, query, db_name))

    print 'joining...'
    gevent.joinall(threads)
    #end timer
    end = time.time()
    duration = end - start
    print duration
    output += "duration: " + repr(duration) + "\n"
    output += "connections: " + repr(connList) + "\n"
    output += "queries: " + repr(queries) + "\n"

    return output

if __name__ == "__main__":
    host = "0.0.0.0"
    #app.debug = True
    app.run(host)

update fixes the issue. Had to do with how I was making connections - needed to define them before I made the threads, not within the thread itself.