So, I'd like to try to build pages by making multiple asynchronous HTTP requests, something akin to what Google's map-reduce algorithm does.

I don't know enough about how Pylons actually works. I'm just now understanding the significance of WSGI and what Python Paste really does.

I think the code in my controller will look something like this:

def render(self): # Figure out what things need to be called # Create a dispatch map. # Set up dispatchers for them all using the map # Loop until everything has completed or until we get impatient # Assemble the results into a page and return it

For the looping part, I am not going to use the global map, but use a map unique to this particular request.

Question: Is this likely to interfere with how Pylons is setup by default? Does it spawn threads for each request, or what happens?

Comments are definitely welcome outside the scope of my questions.