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Teams, individuals and developers requiring a solution for building WebSocket servers and clients in Python
About websockets
An implementation of the WebSocket Protocol (RFC 6455 & 7692). websockets is a library for building WebSocket servers and clients in Python with a focus on correctness, simplicity, robustness, and performance. Built on top of asyncio, Python’s standard asynchronous I/O framework, it provides an elegant coroutine-based API. websockets is heavily tested for compliance with RFC 6455. Continuous integration fails under 100% branch coverage. websockets is built for production. For example, it was the only library to handle backpressure correctly before the issue became widely known in the Python community. Memory usage is optimized and configurable. A C extension accelerates expensive operations. It’s pre-compiled for Linux, macOS, and Windows and packaged in the wheel format for each system and Python version. websockets takes care of everything under the hood so you can focus on your application!
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Python Software Foundation
United States
pypi.org/project/websockets/
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