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I'm not able to figure out dependencies.. is this pure python ? Or are you using one of gevent, libev, uvloop, etc.

Since it is py2, i suppose asyncio is out of the picture

untwisted is pure python. it uses either select/epoll for scaling sockets.

This is very interesting. did you consider using libev/uvloop - which are generally consider battle tested async frameworks ?

Is there anything missing that prompted you to reimplement ?

It seems a good thing to do, indeed. i'll consider that.