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# Sanic

Sanic is a Flask-like Python 3.5+ web server that's written to go fast.  It's based off the work done by the amazing folks at magicstack, and was inspired by this article: https://magic.io/blog/uvloop-blazing-fast-python-networking/.

On top of being flask-like, sanic supports async request handlers.  This means you can use the new shiny async/await syntax from Python 3.5, making your code non-blocking and speedy.

## Benchmarks

All tests were run on a AWS medium instance running ubuntu, using 1 process.  Each script delivered a small JSON response and was tested with wrk using 100 connections.  Pypy was tested for falcon and flask, but did not speed up requests.

| Server  | Implementation      | Requests/sec | Avg Latency |
| ------- | ------------------- | ------------:| -----------:|
| Sanic   | Python 3.5 + uvloop |       30,601 |      3.23ms |
| Wheezy  | gunicorn + meinheld |       20,244 |      4.94ms |
| Falcon  | gunicorn + meinheld |       18,972 |      5.27ms |
| Bottle  | gunicorn + meinheld |       13,596 |      7.36ms |
| Flask   | gunicorn + meinheld |        4,988 |     20.08ms |
| Kyoukai | Python 3.5 + uvloop |        3,889 |     27.44ms |
| Aiohttp | Python 3.5 + uvloop |        2,979 |     33.42ms |

## Hello World

```python
from sanic import Sanic
from sanic.response import json

app = Sanic(__name__)

@app.route("/")
async def test(request):
    return json({ "hello": "world" })

app.run(host="0.0.0.0", port=8000)
```

## Installation
 * `python -m pip install sanic`

## Documentation
 * [Getting started](docs/getting_started.md)
 * [Request Data](docs/request_data.md)
 * [Routing](docs/routing.md)
 * [Middleware](docs/middleware.md)
 * [Exceptions](docs/exceptions.md)
 * [Blueprints](docs/blueprints.md)
 * [Contributing](docs/contributing.md)
 * [License](LICENSE)

## TODO:
 * Streamed file processing
 * File output
 * Examples of integrations with 3rd-party modules
 * RESTful router

## Limitations:
 * No wheels for uvloop and httptools on Windows :(

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