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90Health
Tool PyPI

Gunicorn

A fast, lightweight pre-fork WSGI and ASGI HTTP server for running Python web apps in production on UNIX.

10,669
MIT
Used by 33
90Health
Library PyPI

websockets

Build correct, fast WebSocket servers and clients in Python with asyncio, threading, or Sans-I/O APIs.

5,717
BSD 3
Used by 29
89Health
Library PyPI

filelock

A platform-independent file lock for Python that supports the with-statement.

972
MIT
Used by 21
40Health
Library PyPI

aiosqlite

Async/await-friendly wrapper around Python's built-in sqlite3 module for asyncio applications.

1,575
MIT
Used by 15
38Health
Library PyPI

sniffio

A tiny Python library that detects which async framework (trio, asyncio, or curio) your code is currently running under.

153
Other
Used by 13
76Health
Library PyPI

APScheduler

Python task scheduler with cron, interval, and one-off triggers, backed by pluggable persistent datastores for distributed job scheduling.

7,627
MIT
Used by 12
44Health
Library PyPI

backoff

Python function decorators that retry calls on exceptions or bad return values, with exponential, fibonacci, or constant backoff and jitter.

2,694
MIT
Used by 10
84Health
Library PyPI

gevent

Coroutine-based concurrency for Python, built on greenlets and a fast libev/libuv event loop.

6,448
MIT
Used by 8
78Health
Library PyPI

aiosignal

A lightweight async callback registry that turns a mutable list of coroutine receivers into a frozen, awaitable dispatch signal.

167
Apache 2.0
Used by 7
58Health
Library PyPI

watchfiles

Simple, modern, and fast file watching and code-reload for Python, powered by a Rust core built on the `notify` crate

2,534
MIT
Used by 6
88Health
Tool PyPI

Granian

A fast Rust HTTP server for Python that serves ASGI, WSGI, and RSGI applications

5,639
BSD 3
Used by 5
54Health
Library Cargo

pyo3-async-runtimes

PyO3 bridges between Rust async runtimes and Python's asyncio

196
Apache 2.0
Used by 4
52Health
Library PyPI

aiomysql

A pure-Python async MySQL and MariaDB driver for asyncio, built on top of PyMySQL.

1,895
MIT
Used by 3
70Health
Library PyPI

billiard

A hardened fork of Python's multiprocessing library that powers Celery's worker pool with extra reliability fixes.

434
BSD 3
Used by 3
68Health
Library PyPI

vine

Lightweight Python promise implementation powering Celery's async callback chains

127
BSD 3
Used by 3
76Health
Library PyPI

Motor

MongoDB's official non-blocking Python driver for asyncio and Tornado applications.

2,525
Apache 2.0
Used by 2
40Health
Library PyPI

grpclib

A pure-Python gRPC implementation for asyncio built on top of the hyper-h2 HTTP/2 stack.

987
BSD 3
Used by 2
32Health
Library PyPI

aiocsv

Asynchronous CSV reading and writing for Python's asyncio, with a drop-in-compatible API and an optional C-accelerated parser.

74
MIT
Used by 2
91Health
Framework PyPI

Twisted

A mature, event-driven networking engine for Python built around the reactor pattern, with async HTTP, SSH, DNS, IMAP, and IRC protocols built in.

5,979
MIT
Used by 1
80Health
Library PyPI

Asyncer

Small, developer-experience-focused Python library for mixing async, await, and blocking code via AnyIO.

2,492
MIT
Used by 1
75Health
Framework PyPI

taskiq

An async-first distributed task queue for Python with type-safe tasks, pluggable brokers, and first-class FastAPI/AioHTTP integration.

2,333
MIT
Used by 1
78Health
Library PyPI

kazoo

A production-grade, higher-level Python client for Apache ZooKeeper with pluggable async handlers and battle-tested distributed recipes.

1,322
Apache 2.0
Used by 1
70Health
Library PyPI

Loky

A robust, cross-platform reusable process pool executor for Python, built as the parallel backend for joblib.

627
BSD 3
Used by 1
61Health
Library PyPI

aiodns

A simple asynchronous DNS resolver for Python's asyncio built on pycares

592
MIT
Used by 1

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