# Gevent-socketio documentation ## I ntroduction Socket.IO is a WebSocket-like abstraction that enables real-time communication between a browser and a server. gevent-socketio is a Python implementation (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 check out our example applications and the API documentation. You can see a video that shows gevent-socketio in a live coding presentation here: http://pyvideo.org/video/1573/gevent-socketio-cross-fra

# gevent-socketio Documentation Release 0.3.1 Jeffrey Gelens, Alex Bourget, John Anderson March 19, 2015 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) 1 Introduction 1 2 Concepts 3 3 Getting started 5 4 Examples WebSocket-like abstraction that enables real-time communication between a browser and a server. gevent-socketio is a Python implementation of the protocol. The reference server implementation of Socket.IO (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