Python asynchronous programming libraries ¶ See also https://github.com/florimondmanca/awesome-asgi https://github.com/timofurrer/awesome-asyncio https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio-api-index.html https://github.com/aio-libs AnyIO , a Python library providing structured concurrency primitives on top of asyncio Description Articles Structured concurrency in Python with AnyIO by Matt Westcott (August 17, 2020) The current state of async Python AnyIO to the rescue An example: graceful task shutdown Summary: use AnyIO on top of asyncio for the best of both worlds asyncio Asynchronous I/O Description asyncio High-level APIs Guides and Tutorials Structured concurrency with anyio sniffio Sniff out which async library your code is running under Description Examples Trio (a friendly Python library for async concurrency and I/O)