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Dec 08 - Dec 14, 2025

Database Drivers

• pymongo (⭐4.3k) - The Official MongoDB Python driver, offering both synchronous and asynchronous APIs.

Writings

• Short well-written intro to asyncio - Generators, Coroutines, Native Coroutines and async/await.

Jan 02 - Jan 08, 2023

Misc

• async_property (⭐98) - Python decorator for async properties.

• taskiq - Asynchronous distributed task manager (like celery, but async).

Dec 12 - Dec 18, 2022

Web Frameworks

• Django - An established, high-level Python web framework with a huge community and ecosystem.

Nov 14 - Nov 20, 2022

Talks

• Python Asynchronous I/O Walkthrough - 8-part code walkthrough (Philip Guo).

Oct 31 - Nov 06, 2022

Database Drivers

• redis-py (⭐13k) - Redis Python Client (which includes aioreadis (⭐2.3k) now).

• Beanie - An async MongoDB ODM built on pymongo (⭐4.3k) and Pydantic.

Oct 24 - Oct 30, 2022

Web Frameworks

• FastAPI (⭐93k) - A very high performance Python 3.6+ API framework based on type hints. Powered by Starlette and Pydantic.

• Starlette (⭐12k) - A lightweight ASGI framework/toolkit for building high performance services.

• Quart (⭐3.6k) - An asyncio web microframework with the same API as Flask.

Testing

• aresponses (⭐107) - Asyncio http mocking. Similar to the responses (⭐4.3k) library used for requests (⭐54k).

Misc

• kubernetes_asyncio (⭐418) - Asynchronous client library for Kubernetes.

Alternatives to asyncio

• curio (⭐4.1k) - The coroutine concurrency library.
  • Curio-Asyncio Bridge (⭐4.1k) - basic curio -> asyncio coroutine bridge.

• trio (⭐7k) - Pythonic async I/O for humans and snake people.
  • trio-asyncio (⭐201) - re-implementation of the asyncio mainloop on top of Trio.

• AnyIO (⭐2.3k) - High level asynchronous concurrency and networking framework that works on top of either trio or asyncio.

Aug 08 - Aug 14, 2022

Talks

• Demystifying Python's Async and Await Keywords - JetBrains TV 2020 (Michael Kennedy)

Mar 14 - Mar 20, 2022

Database Drivers

• Prisma Client Python (⭐2.1k) - An auto-generated, fully type safe ORM powered by Pydantic and tailored specifically for your schema - supports SQLite, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, MariaDB and more.

Sep 20 - Sep 26, 2021

Writings

• Python Concurrency with asyncio - Learn how to speed up slow Python code with concurrent programming and the cutting-edge asyncio library.

Apr 26 - May 02, 2021

Misc

• aiomisc (⭐417) - Miscellaneous utils for asyncio.

Apr 19 - Apr 25, 2021

GraphQL

• Strawberry - Code-first Python 3 GraphQL server with Django, Flask and FastAPI/Starlette support.

Mar 29 - Apr 04, 2021

Misc

• aiopath (⭐189) - Asynchronous pathlib for asyncio.

Jul 20 - Jul 26, 2020

Networking

• aiodns (⭐578) - Simple DNS resolver for asyncio.

• aioping (⭐91) - Fast asyncio implementation of ICMP (ping) protocol.

Jun 29 - Jul 05, 2020

Misc

• aiosc (⭐39) - Lightweight Open Sound Control implementation.

Jun 01 - Jun 07, 2020

Database Drivers

• Piccolo (⭐1.8k) - An ORM / query builder which can work in async and sync modes, with a nice admin GUI, and ASGI middleware.

Feb 17 - Feb 23, 2020

Misc

• aiocache (⭐1.4k) - Cache manager for different backends.

Jan 27 - Feb 02, 2020

Writings

• First Principles Introduction to Asyncio - A no-buzzword first principles introduction to the internal workings of asyncio.

• Developing and Testing an Asynchronous API with FastAPI and Pytest - This tutorial looks at how to develop and test an asynchronous API with FastAPI using Test-Driven Development (TDD).

Jan 20 - Jan 26, 2020

Networking

• httpx (⭐15k) - asynchronous HTTP client for Python 3 with requests (⭐53k) compatible API.

Jun 03 - Jun 09, 2019

GraphQL

• Ariadne - Schema-first Python library for implementing GraphQL servers.

• Tartiflette - Schema-first Python 3.6+ GraphQL engine built on top of libgraphqlparser.

May 20 - May 26, 2019

Misc

• asgiref (⭐1.6k) - Backend utils for ASGI to WSGI integration, includes sync_to_async and async_to_sync function wrappers.

Feb 25 - Mar 03, 2019

Talks

• Async/await in Python 3.5 and why it is awesome - EuroPython 2016 (Yury Selivanov).

• Fear and Awaiting in Async: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the Coroutine Dream | screencast - PyOhio 2016 keynote (David Beazley).

• Asynchronous Python for the Complete Beginner | slides - PyCon 2017 (Miguel Grinberg).

Feb 18 - Feb 24, 2019

Database Drivers

• Databases (⭐4k) - Async database access for SQLAlchemy core, with support for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQLite.

Jan 07 - Jan 13, 2019

Message Queues

• pyzmq (⭐4k) - Python bindings for ZeroMQ.

• aiozmq (⭐433) - Alternative Asyncio integration with ZeroMQ.

Writings

• ASGI (Asynchronous Server Gateway Interface) - A spiritual successor to WSGI, intended to provide a standard interface between async-capable Python web servers, frameworks, and applications.

Dec 24 - Dec 30, 2018

Database Drivers

• Tortoise ORM (⭐5.4k) - native multi-backend ORM with Django-like API and easy relations management.

Nov 05 - Nov 11, 2018

Testing

• aioresponses (⭐550) - Helper for mock/fake web requests in Python aiohttp package.

Oct 29 - Nov 04, 2018

Web Frameworks

• uvicorn (⭐10k) - The lightning-fast ASGI server.

Oct 22 - Oct 28, 2018

Misc

• ruia (⭐1.7k) - An async web scraping micro-framework based on asyncio.

Sep 24 - Sep 30, 2018

Misc

• aioserial (⭐146) - A drop-in replacement of pySerial (⭐3.5k).

Sep 10 - Sep 16, 2018

Misc

• aiochan (⭐177) - CSP-style concurrency with channels, select and multiprocessing on top of asyncio.

Aug 20 - Aug 26, 2018

Message Queues

• asyncio-nats (⭐1.1k) - Client for the NATS messaging system.

• aiokafka (⭐1.3k) - Client for Apache Kafka.

Jul 16 - Jul 22, 2018

Talks

• Topics of Interest (Python Asyncio) | screencast | slides - PyCon Brasil 2015 keynote (David Beazley).

May 28 - Jun 03, 2018

Writings

• Test limits of Python aiohttp - Making 1 million requests with python-aiohttp.

May 21 - May 27, 2018

Web Frameworks

• Tornado - Performant web framework and asynchronous networking library.

Apr 09 - Apr 15, 2018

Database Drivers

• aioinflux (⭐160) - InfluxDB client built on top of aiohttp.

Mar 05 - Mar 11, 2018

Database Drivers

• GINO (⭐2.8k) - is a lightweight asynchronous Python ORM based on SQLAlchemy core, with asyncpg (⭐7.8k) dialect.

Dec 18 - Dec 24, 2017

Writings

• AsyncIO for the Working Python Developer - A gentle introduction to asynchronous programming from basic examples working up to URL fetching.

Dec 04 - Dec 10, 2017

Misc

• aiozipkin (⭐192) - Distributed tracing instrumentation for asyncio with zipkin

Nov 06 - Nov 12, 2017

Web Frameworks

• websockets (⭐5.6k) - A library for building WebSocket servers and clients in Python with a focus on correctness and simplicity.

Oct 23 - Oct 29, 2017

Misc

• aiorun (⭐468) - A run() function that handles all the usual boilerplate for startup and graceful shutdown.

Aug 07 - Aug 13, 2017

Misc

• aiodebug (⭐64) - A tiny library for monitoring and testing asyncio programs.

Apr 03 - Apr 09, 2017

Database Drivers

• asyncpgsa (⭐516) - Asyncpg with sqlalchemy core support.

Jan 30 - Feb 05, 2017

Testing

• aiomock (⭐27) - A python mock library that supports async methods.

Dec 26 - Jan 01, 2016

Database Drivers

• peewee-async (⭐762) - ORM implementation based on peewee (⭐12k) and aiopg.

Dec 12 - Dec 18, 2016

Database Drivers

• asyncpg (⭐7.8k) - Fast PostgreSQL Database Client Library for Python/asyncio.

• aioes (⭐99) - Asyncio compatible driver for elasticsearch.

Nov 07 - Nov 13, 2016

Web Frameworks

• aiohttp (⭐16k) - Http client/server for asyncio (PEP-3156).

• sanic (⭐19k) - Python 3.5+ web server that's written to go fast.

• autobahn (⭐2.5k) - WebSocket and WAMP supporting asyncio and Twisted, for clients and servers.

Message Queues

• aioamqp (⭐282) - AMQP implementation using asyncio.

• crossbar (⭐2.1k) - Crossbar.io is a networking platform for distributed and microservice applications.

Database Drivers

• aiopg (⭐1.4k) - Library for accessing a PostgreSQL database.

• aiomysql (⭐1.9k) - Library for accessing a MySQL database

• aioodbc (⭐325) - Library for accessing a ODBC databases.

• aiocouchdb (⭐54) - CouchDB client built on top of aiohttp (asyncio).

Networking

• AsyncSSH (⭐1.7k) - Provides an asynchronous client and server implementation of the SSHv2 protocol.

Testing

• asynctest (⭐309) - Enhance the standard unittest package with features for testing. asyncio libraries

• pytest-asyncio (⭐1.6k) - Pytest support for asyncio.

Alternative Loops

• uvloop (⭐11k) - Ultra fast implementation of asyncio event loop on top of libuv.

Misc

• aiofiles (⭐3.2k) - File support for asyncio.

Writings

• Official asyncio documentation - Asynchronous I/O, event loop, coroutines and tasks.