README.rst

Presentation

gevent-socketio is a Python implementation of the Socket.IO protocol, developed originally for Node.js by LearnBoost and then ported to other languages. Socket.IO enables real-time web communications between a browser and a server, using a WebSocket-like API. One aim of this project is to provide a single gevent-based API that works across the different WSGI-based web frameworks out there (Pyramid, Pylons, Flask, web2py, Django, etc...). Only ~3 lines of code are required to tie-in gevent-socketio in your framework. Note: you need to use the gevent python WSGI server to use gevent-socketio.

Community, rise up!

ANNOUNCEMENT: This project is in need of a solid maintainer to navigate through the 27+ open Pull Requests, merge what needs to be merged, and continue on with newer developments. @abourget is not putting as much time as he'd like on this project these days. This project has nearly 1000 GitHub Stars.. it's used by major corporations. It's a great project for you to lead. Contact me on Twitter @bourgetalexndre to take more leadership.

Technical overview

Most of the gevent-socketio implementation is pure Python. There is an obvious dependency on gevent, and another on gevent-websocket. There are integration examples for Pyramid, Flask, Django and BYOF (bring your own framework!).

Documentation and References

You can read the renderered Sphinx docs at:

• http://readthedocs.org/docs/gevent-socketio/en/latest/

Discussion and questions happen on the mailing list:

• https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/gevent-socketio

or in the Github issue tracking:

• https://github.com/abourget/gevent-socketio/issues

You can also contact the maintainer:

• https://twitter.com/#!/bourgetalexndre
• https://plus.google.com/109333785244622657612

Installation

You can install with standard Python methods:

pip install gevent-socketio

or from source:

git clone git://github.com/abourget/gevent-socketio.git
cd gevent-socketio
python setup.py install

For development, run instead of install:

python setup.py develop

If you want to do all of that in a virtualenv, run:

virtualenv env
. env/bin/activate
python setup.py develop   # or install

To execute all tests, run:

tox

To execute all tests for a specific Python version, run something like:

tox -e py27

To execute a specific test for a specific Python version, run something like:

tox -e py27 -- test_packet.py::TestEncodeMessage::test_encode_event