After spending two entire days on this I\'m still finding it impossible to understand all the choices and configurations for Comet in Python. I\'ve read all the answers here
You could use Socket.IO. There are gevent and tornado handlers for it. See my blog post on gevent-socketio with Django here: http://codysoyland.com/2011/feb/6/evented-django-part-one-socketio-and-gevent/