What is the websockets library in Python?

websockets is a Python package that creates socket servers and clients to allow communication between the two parties; it is a coroutine-based API built on top of Python’s standard asynchronous I/O framework, asyncio.

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The send and recv methods of the Python class are the only minimal methods required to perform basic communication. Take a look at the example below:

import asyncio
import websockets
# async function to connect to a specified uri
async def intro(uri):
async with websockets.connect(uri) as ws:
# sending a message to the socket connected to the uri
await ws.send("I am Hassan.")
# receiving a message from the connected socket
await ws.recv()
asyncio.get_event_loop().run_until_complete(
intro('ws://127.0.0.1:8000'))

For more information on Python websockets, visit the official documentation.

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