jfhbrook/pyee

A rough port of Node.js's EventEmitter to Python with a few tricks of its own

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pyee

pyee supplies a EventEmitter object that is similar to the EventEmitter class from Node.js. It also supplies a number of subclasses with added support for async and threaded programming in python, such as async/await.

Docs

Autogenerated API docs, including basic installation directions and examples, can be found at https://pyee.readthedocs.io.

Development

See DEVELOPMENT.md.

Changelog

See CHANGELOG.md.

Contributors

See CONTRIBUTORS.md.

License

MIT/X11, see LICENSE.

async

asyncio

concurrency

event-emitter

hacktoberfest

nodejs

python

trio

twisted

Significant stargazers

Yoong Hor Meng

32 followers · starred Jul 2025

Owen Zimmerman

31 followers · starred Nov 2025

James Parrott

21 followers · starred Oct 2025

kingdomad

4 followers · starred Nov 2024

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