Well, you can either monkey patch the socket module OR do the callback hell + completely alienate you from the Python ecosystem. I'm not saying these are perfe

Well, you can either monkey patch the socket module OR do the callback hell + completely alienate you from the Python ecosystem. I'm not saying these are perfect solutions. But gevent with greenlet addresses the problem at the right level. Making developers care about asynchronous I/O only when they need it. Not the other way around as with many other async/event based frameworks. We're actually using it for our real-time web framework Planet (http://www.esn.me http://www.esn.me) and our cloud-hosted WebSocket service, Beacon (http://beaconpush.com http://beaconpush.com). So far, so good!