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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):