saghul/pyuv

Health v2 · maintenance only

Flags: archived

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1107 stars · 105 forks observed · 2026-08-28

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

pyuv is a Python binding for libuv, the high-performance asynchronous I/O and platform abstraction library behind Node.js. It exposes non-blocking TCP/UDP sockets, timers, async DNS and filesystem operations, child processes, and thread pool scheduling through a consistent cross-platform API.

Use cases

• write non-blocking TCP servers in Python
• perform asynchronous DNS resolution
• watch filesystem events cross-platform
• spawn and manage child processes asynchronously
• schedule work on a thread pool
• build an event loop on epoll/kqueue/IOCP

When to choose

• you need libuv's event loop and primitives directly from Python
• you want consistent async I/O behavior across Linux, macOS, and Windows
• you need low-level networking, timers, or fs events without a full framework

When to avoid

• you just want high-level async code - use Python's built-in asyncio instead
• you need an actively developed project - releases are infrequent and Python 2.7-era docs linger
• you want a batteries-included web framework rather than raw event loop bindings

Facets

library · maturity maintenance

concurrency networking http-server websocket developer-tools networking cross-platform python windows cross-platform libuv event-loop async-io bindings ctypes linux macos

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