What are some modern Comet servers written in Python?

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I've built my application in python (using greenthreads from eventlent) and I was supposed to use Orbited as comet server to pass requests from user-end javascript code to my application.

Sadly, I found that Orbited is dead, site is down for a few weeks and it lack python 2.7 support.

Could you recommend some good replacements?

possible duplicate of [Python Comet Server](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/960969/python-comet-server) — Senthil Kumaran, Jun 25 '11 at 01:07
it's outdated, as I said, Orbited is dead and seems like StreamHub doesn't work in Chrome — Andrew, Jun 25 '11 at 01:09

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 25 '11 at 02:06

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You could build a comet server using gevent, meinheld, mongrel2, tornado, twisted, or uwsgi, all of which have long-polling examples. This list isn't exhaustive. You could also consider using WebSockets instead, several have WebSocket examples as well.

answered Jun 25 '11 at 02:06

Zach Kelling

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but the reason why I've created this topic is that I'm not willing to create it by hand and looking for some out-the-box solution (which Orbited was) – Andrew Jun 25 '11 at 02:29
@Andrew I think you are overestimating the complexity of writing a comet app. This answer has a [simple example of long-polling code](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/333664/simple-long-polling-example-code/333884#333884). Also check out [tornado's chat example](https://github.com/facebook/tornado/tree/master/demos/chat). – Zach Kelling Jun 25 '11 at 03:34

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 25 '11 at 08:13

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I haven't used it personally, but it seems that CometD has a Twisted-based implementation of its protocol.

answered Jun 25 '11 at 08:13

Glyph

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 30 '12 at 22:40

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It seems that for now the best option is to use Socket.io, which offer simple and feature-rich programming interface both on server and client side. The python options are:

answered Nov 30 '12 at 22:40

Andrew

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score -1 · Answer 4 · answered Jun 25 '11 at 02:58

http://meteorserver.org/

Probably that won't register as an answer as you are looking for a server written in Python. Still, I would recommend this efficient server written in Perl. After all, IMHO, as an out-of-the-box/off-the-shelf solution it's as good as any other Python-based server can get.

What are some modern Comet servers written in Python?

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