eventlet/eventlet

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Eventlet is a Python concurrent networking library using greenlet-based coroutines and epoll/libevent for scalable non-blocking I/O with a blocking-style API. It is now in maintenance-only mode with planned retirement, and new usage is discouraged in favor of asyncio.

Use cases

• run blocking-style Python code with non-blocking I/O
• handle thousands of concurrent network connections in Python
• maintain a legacy Python app that depends on eventlet
• migrate an eventlet-based codebase to asyncio
• add cooperative multitasking to existing Python services

When to choose

• you maintain an existing application already built on eventlet
• you need bug-fix-level stability for a legacy greenlet-based deployment
• you want help migrating from eventlet to asyncio

When to avoid

• starting a new Python project - use asyncio instead
• you need new features or long-term support
• you want a library aligned with modern CPython async internals

Facets

library · maturity maintenance

concurrency networking http-server developer-tools backend networking python windows greenlet coroutines asyncio-migration c10k non-blocking-io legacy linux macos

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