Here is a barebones socket.io client library for Python.
Thanks to rod for his StackOverflow question and answer, on which this code is based.
Thanks also to liris for his websocket-client and to guille for the socket.io specification.
# Prepare isolated environment
ENV=$HOME/Projects/env
virtualenv $ENV
mkdir $ENV/opt
# Activate isolated environment
source $ENV/bin/activate
# Install package
easy_install -U socketIO-client
ENV=$HOME/Projects/env
source $ENV/bin/activate
python
from socketIO import SocketIO
s = SocketIO('localhost', 8000)
s.emit('news', {'hello': 'world'})
This software is available under the MIT License. Please see LICENSE.txt for the full license text.