[MZ] Added uvloop.EventLoopPolicy()

Author: manuelzander

README.md

@@ -4,7 +4,9 @@
 
 This small project comprises a simple Python UDP server plus Dockerfile, as well as a (hopefully) useful Makefile and unittests.
 
-The server makes use of the `asyncio` library to allow for asynchronous request handling.
+The server makes use of the `asyncio` and `uvloop` libraries to allow for fast, asynchronous request handling.
+
+Check out [this blog post](http://magic.io/blog/uvloop-blazing-fast-python-networking/) if you're interested in more performance details.
 
 ## Prerequisites
 

app.py

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 import logging
 
 import coloredlogs
+import uvloop
 
 from utils import create_parser
 
@@ -21,6 +22,7 @@
     ":crossed:": "🤞",
 }
 
+
 # For further reference see https://docs.python.org/3.7/library/asyncio-protocol.html#udp-echo-client
 class MessagePrinterServerProtocol(asyncio.BaseProtocol):
     def __init__(self, n: int, s: str, r: bool) -> None:
@@ -81,6 +83,8 @@ def main() -> None:
     logger.info(f"Starting UDP server listening on: {APP_HOST}:{APP_PORT}")
 
     loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
+    asyncio.set_event_loop_policy(uvloop.EventLoopPolicy())
+
     transport, protocol = loop.run_until_complete(
         loop.create_datagram_endpoint(
             lambda: MessagePrinterServerProtocol(args.n, args.s, args.r),

requirements.txt

@@ -20,5 +20,6 @@ six==1.15.0
 toml==0.10.1
 typed-ast==1.4.1
 typing-extensions==3.7.4.2
+uvloop==0.14.0
 wcwidth==0.2.5
 zipp==3.1.0

utils.py

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ def create_parser() -> ArgumentParser:
         default="",
         type=str,
         required=False,
-        help="Separator between each emoji (str, default: "")",
+        help="Separator between each emoji (str, default: '')",
     )
     parser.add_argument(
         "--r",