[Python] Difference between websocket and websockets

What's the difference between websocket (websocket client) and websockets?

I have a code that seems to do the same thing.

import websockets
import asyncio
import json

async def capture_data():
uri = "wss://www.bitmex.com/realtime?subscribe=instrument:XBTUSD"
#uri = "wss://www.bitmex.com/realtime"
async with websockets.connect(uri) as websocket:
while True:
data = await websocket.recv()
data = json.loads(data)
try :
#print('\n', data['data'][0]["lastPrice"])
print('\n', data)
except KeyError:
continue


asyncio.get_event_loop().run_until_complete(capture_data())


import websocket
import json

def on_open(ws):
print("opened")

auth_data = {
'op': 'subscribe',
'args': ['instrument:XBTUSD']
}
ws.send(json.dumps(auth_data))

def on_message(ws, message):
message = json.loads(message)
print(message)

def on_close(ws):
print("closed connection")


socket = "wss://www.bitmex.com/realtime"
ws = websocket.WebSocketApp(socket,
on_open=on_open,
on_message=on_message,
on_close=on_close)
ws.run_forever()


EDIT:

Is Python powerful enough to receive a lot of data via websocket? In times of high traffic, I could have thousands of messages per second and even tens of thousands for short periods of time.

I've seen a lot of things about Nodejs that might be better than python but I don't know js and even if I just copy code from the internet I'm not sure I wouldn't waste time if I have to send the data to my python script and then process it.

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