Differences between gevent and tornado

Question

I understand that both tornado and gevent are asynchronous python frameworks.

While reading the bottle documentation I found that gevent actual

Answer 1

Have a read of:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coroutines

and:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event-driven_architecture

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event-driven_programming

The gevent package uses coroutines and Tornado is event driven.

Even driven systems don't readily map to WSGI, but a coroutine system, because it looks like threads, can be made to support WSGI if blocking points can be patched to switch coroutines when things would block.