Sanic

Sanic is a Flask-like Python 3.5+ web server that's written to go fast. It's based on the work done by the amazing folks at magicstack, and was inspired by this article.

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.

Sanic is developed on GitHub. Contributions are welcome!

Benchmarks

All tests were run on an 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	33,342	2.96ms
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
Tornado	Python 3.5	2,138	46.66ms

Hello World Example

from sanic import Sanic
from sanic.response import json

app = Sanic()

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

if __name__ == "__main__":
    app.run(host="0.0.0.0", port=8000)

Installation

• python -m pip install sanic

Documentation

Documentation on Readthedocs.

TODO

• Streamed file processing
• http2

Limitations

• No wheels for uvloop and httptools on Windows :(

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