picows is exceptionally fast! It was born as a part of an algorithmic trading project where clients have to process more than 10k messages per second (typically very small, less than 512 bytes) during market activity spikes and without accumulating latency or any opaque message queuing. There is simply no other library in Python that is up to this task.
That being said, picows performs great across all message sizes.
There is a separate repo with the benchmarks here
🔄 This issue represents a GitHub Pull Request. It cannot be merged through Gitea due to API limitations.
## 📋 Pull Request Information
**Original PR:** https://github.com/vinta/awesome-python/pull/3027
**Author:** [@tarasko](https://github.com/tarasko)
**Created:** 4/5/2026
**Status:** ✅ Merged
**Merged:** 4/7/2026
**Merged by:** [@JinyangWang27](https://github.com/JinyangWang27)
**Base:** `master` ← **Head:** `master`
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### 📝 Commits (2)
- [`e078d5b`](https://github.com/vinta/awesome-python/commit/e078d5b92da2115cc56bf61f1a727a140a96289d) Add picows library to WebSocket section
- [`f63c9f8`](https://github.com/vinta/awesome-python/commit/f63c9f899fd5fad1787a964003ab89ac1092e8f9) Update 'picows' entry in README
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### 📄 Description
## Project
[picows](https://github.com/tarasko/picows) - ultra-fast WebSocket clients and servers for asyncio
## Why This Project Is Awesome
- **Hidden Gem** - Exceptional quality, solves niche problems elegantly
## How It Differs
picows is exceptionally fast! It was born as a part of an algorithmic trading project where clients have to process more than 10k messages per second (typically very small, less than 512 bytes) during market activity spikes and without accumulating latency or any opaque message queuing. There is simply no other library in Python that is up to this task.
That being said, picows performs great across all message sizes.
There is a separate repo with the benchmarks [here](https://github.com/tarasko/websocket-benchmark)
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📋 Pull Request Information
Original PR: https://github.com/vinta/awesome-python/pull/3027
Author: @tarasko
Created: 4/5/2026
Status: ✅ Merged
Merged: 4/7/2026
Merged by: @JinyangWang27
Base:
master← Head:master📝 Commits (2)
e078d5bAdd picows library to WebSocket sectionf63c9f8Update 'picows' entry in README📊 Changes
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README.md(+1 -0)📄 Description
Project
picows - ultra-fast WebSocket clients and servers for asyncio
Why This Project Is Awesome
How It Differs
picows is exceptionally fast! It was born as a part of an algorithmic trading project where clients have to process more than 10k messages per second (typically very small, less than 512 bytes) during market activity spikes and without accumulating latency or any opaque message queuing. There is simply no other library in Python that is up to this task.
That being said, picows performs great across all message sizes.
There is a separate repo with the benchmarks here
🔄 This issue represents a GitHub Pull Request. It cannot be merged through Gitea due to API limitations.