How to make IPC provider async?

[Jay54520]

• Version: 5.21.0
• Python: 3.5
• OS: linux

What was wrong?

The socket of IPC is blocking because you don't setblockking at

web3.py/web3/providers/ipc.py

Line 42 in f4add46

sock.connect(ipc_path)

, and there is a lock of thread, so multiple threads can't work as expected.

[kclowes]

Async is a work in progress. We don't have support for an async IPCProvider yet, but it's on the roadmap. Going to close since adding an async IPCProvider is tracked in #1413