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id: python-socketio
version: "5.16.4"
license: MIT
license_treatment: permissive
maintenance: active
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# python-socketio — Socket.IO server and client for Python

License: permissive · Maintenance: active · Popularity: top 1,000 on PyPI

## Install

pip install python-socketio
uv add python-socketio
poetry add python-socketio

## Description

python-socketio
===============

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Python implementation of the `Socket.IO` realtime client and server.

Sponsors
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The following organizations are funding this project:

![Socket.IO](https://images.opencollective.com/socketio/050e5eb/logo/64.png)<br>[Socket.IO](https://socket.io)  | [Add your company here!](https://github.com/sponsors/miguelgrinberg)|
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Many individual sponsors also support this project through small ongoing contributions. Why not [join them](https://github.com/sponsors/miguelgrinberg)?

Version compatibility
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The Socket.IO protocol has been through a number of revisions, and some of these
introduced backward incompatible changes, which means that the client and the
server must use compatible versions for everything to work.

If you are using the Python client and server, the easiest way to ensure compatibility
is to use the same...

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