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by mrbrowning 4697 days ago
Out of curiosity, why the switch? I went with gevent pretty early on because it seemed like eventlet had some weird quirks, but I have to admit never really giving it a close look.
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Because it is supported in older Pythons on some servers I work on. Works with PyPy. It has less dependencies (just greenlet) and easier to build.

gevent also has been thrashing around is it 1.0 beta? Switching to libev or libevent. And eventlet picked up more steam with more test coverage.

So no one big issue just a bunch of small ones.