[ericfrederich]

How does that compare to aiohttp? What are the benefits?

[vsmhn]

I'm not sure I understand the question, are you interested in comparing tornado and aiohttp?

[omginternets]

aio isn't available for py2. The benefit is that this is available for py2.

[loeg]

There is https://github.com/vstinner/trollius for vanilla Python2.

[vsmhn]

trollius is no longer maintained

[loeg]

It's still a reasonable starting place for anyone wanting asyncio on vanilla Python2. Outside of vanilla Python2, Tauthon also has some tracking issues for the language extensions and libraries needed for a backport of asyncio to Tauthon.[0]

[0]: https://github.com/naftaliharris/tauthon/issues/10