From 4b1942107527e45c7e2b7914c58da5b6a768b0ab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael H <Sinbad@michaelhall.tech>
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2018 23:55:55 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] [V3] use uvloop if available (#1935)

* use uvloop if available

* Update __main__.py

requested changes made
---
 redbot/__main__.py | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/redbot/__main__.py b/redbot/__main__.py
index 50045b81b..3dc4014e4 100644
--- a/redbot/__main__.py
+++ b/redbot/__main__.py
@@ -19,6 +19,15 @@ import logging.handlers
 import logging
 import os
 
+# Let's not force this dependency, uvloop is much faster on cpython
+if sys.implementation.name == "cpython":
+    try:
+        import uvloop
+    except ImportError:
+        pass
+    else:
+        asyncio.set_event_loop_policy(uvloop.EventLoopPolicy())
+
 
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