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gevent vs greenlet

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

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.

networkingasyncevent-loopnonblocking
greenlet

greenlet

Development

Greenlet is a lightweight concurrency library for Python that allows users to switch between several green threads (coroutines) in a similar way to yield statements. It enables non-blocking cooperative multitasking in Python programs.

concurrencycoroutinesmultitasking

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