bencher.py

import time
import requests
import threading

class HTTPBencher(threading.Thread):
    def __init__(self, span):
        super(HTTPBencher, self).__init__()
        self.span=span
        self.final_count = None

    def run(self):
            start = time.time()
            count = 0
            while time.time() - start < self.span:
                    res = requests.get("http://127.0.0.1:80")
                    count += 1

            self.final_count = count

span = 5
threads = 5

tds = [HTTPBencher(span) for x in range(threads)]
for td in tds:
    td.start()

total_count = 0
for td in tds:
    td.join()

counts = [td.final_count for td in tds]
print(sum(counts)/span)