greenlet
Lightweight pseudo-threads for concurrent Python programming without OS-level overhead.
Utilities PyPI
Used in agent projects
61
0.5% of 12,697 public repos built with AI coding agents
Rank in utilities
#37 of 109
by use in those projects
Downloads
86.2M
PyPI, last 7 days, greenlet
GitHub stars
1,852
last push Oct 1, 2026
How greenlet is used
greenlet is a dependency in 61 of the 12,697 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned (0.5%), #37 of 109 in utilities. The most used alternative there is clsx. Projects that use it most often also use SQLAlchemy (85.2%), Pydantic (82.0%), python-dotenv (75.4%).
Often used with greenlet
| SQLAlchemy | 85.2% of greenlet projects · 43.3× more than average |
|---|---|
| Pydantic | 82.0% of greenlet projects · 16.0× more than average |
| python-dotenv | 75.4% of greenlet projects · 11.6× more than average |
| AnyIO | 72.1% of greenlet projects · 49.2× more than average |
| websockets | 70.5% of greenlet projects · 31.3× more than average |
| Click | 68.9% of greenlet projects · 39.2× more than average |
By coding agent
| Claude Code | 0.6% of projects set up for it |
|---|---|
| GitHub Copilot | 0.6% of projects set up for it |
| Cursor | 0.7% of projects set up for it |
Share of public repos configured for each agent that list greenlet as a dependency.
Install
| Package | pip install greenlet |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Python (58), Next.js (3) |
| Example projects | pipedude/evi-run, siiway/NextBridge, leonardsellem/readwise-vector-db, ManojINaik/manimAnimationAgent, yazelin/jaba-ai |
Alternatives to greenlet
| Tool | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| clsx npm Tiny utility for conditionally constructing className strings. |
2,251 (17.7%) | 126M | 9,847 | MIT |
| date-fns npm Modern JavaScript date utility library with comprehensive formatting functions. |
1,079 (8.5%) | 97.6M | 36.6K | MIT |
| uuid npm Generate RFC9562 compliant UUIDs for unique identifiers in applications. |
454 (3.6%) | 296M | 15.3K | MIT |
| PyYAML pypi YAML parser and emitter for reading and writing YAML configuration files. |
385 (3.0%) | 239M | 2,954 | MIT |
| Lodash npm Modular utility library with methods for common programming tasks and data manipulation. |
269 (2.1%) | 162M | 61.4K | MIT |
| bn.js npm Big number library for handling arbitrary-precision integers in JavaScript. |
217 (1.7%) | 62.1M | 1,230 | MIT |
| python-dateutil pypi Extensions to Python's datetime module for advanced date and time manipulation. |
165 (1.3%) | 233M | 2,638 | Dual License |
| yaml npm JavaScript YAML parser and stringifier with full spec compliance. |
164 (1.3%) | 179M | 1,693 | ISC |