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eventlet vs gevent

A side-by-side look at eventlet and gevent. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

eventlet

eventlet

Development

Eventlet is a concurrent networking library for Python that allows developers to easily write highly scalable servers. It uses green threads to provide asynchronous I/O without having to deal with callback functions or program complexity.

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gevent

gevent

Development

gevent is a Python networking library built on top of libev event loop. It provides a high-level synchronous API on top of libev's asynchronous event loop, making it easier to write non-blocking network applications in Python.

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