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Engine.IO is a lightweight transport protocol that enables real-time
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bidirectional event-based communication between clients (typically,
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though not always, web browsers) and a server. The official
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implementations of the client and server components are written in
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JavaScript. This package provides Python implementations of both, each
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with standard and asyncio variants.
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The Engine.IO protocol is extremely simple. Once a connection between
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a client and a server is established, either side can send "messages"
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to the other side. Event handlers provided by the applications on both
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ends are invoked when a message is received, or when a connection is
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established or dropped.
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