I know a bit of programming but still new to python and web2py (and to
web programming in general, actually), so sorry if I make a gaffe and
for my poor english.
I have the intention of developing a meta-search website. It queries a
bunch of other sites for results, processes them and show to the
user.
I need to query all the other sites at the same time (I'll start with
5 but intend to go up to around 15 or 20), if I do one after another I
won't be able to respond to the user in a reasonable time. I found on
the book about background tasks, but none of the approaches seemed to
fit my problem. They are about running tasks at pre-determined times
or for running other applications. I just need something as simple as
threads, but I've read somewhere that I can't invoke threads like a
normal python application on the controller, and from what I've
understood it is in the controller that my code will run.
I'm probably missing something very simple, but I would be grateful if
someone could point me in the right way (even if the right is another
web framework or even another language).
Thank you very much.
