How to use a thread pool to do infinite loop function?

Question

I want to do a infinite loop function.

Here is my code

def do_request():
    # my code here
    print(result)

while True:
    do_request()

When use while True to do this, it's a little slow, so I want to use a thread pool to concurrently execute the function do_request(). How to do this ?

Just like use ab (Apache Bench) to test HTTP server.

Answer 1

Finally, I've solved this problem. I use a variable to limit the thread number.

Here is my final code, solved my problem.

import threading
import time

thread_num = 0
lock = threading.Lock()

def do_request():
    global thread_num
    # -------------
    # my code here
    # -------------
    with lock:
        thread_num -= 1

while True:
    if thread_num <= 50:
        with lock:
            thread_num += 1
        t = threading.Thread(target=do_request)
        t.start()
    else:
        time.sleep(0.01)

Thanks for all replies.