Twisted 15.4.0

Twisted is a networking engine written in Python, supporting numerous protocols. It contains a web server, numerous chat clients, chat servers, mail servers, and more. Twisted is made up of a number of modules for many different purposes, including the following:

twisted.application

A "Service" system that allows you to organize your application in hierarchies with well-defined startup and dependency semantics,

twisted.cred

A general credentials and authentication system that facilitates pluggable authentication backends,

twisted.enterprise

Asynchronous database access, compatible with any Python DBAPI2.0 modules

twisted.internet

Low-level asynchronous networking APIs that allow you to define your own protocols that run over certain transports

twisted.manhole

A tool for remote debugging of your services which gives you a Python interactive interpreter

twisted.protocols

Basic protocol implementations and helpers for your own protocol implementations,

twisted.python

A large set of utilities for Python tricks, reflection, text processing, and anything else,

twisted.spread

A secure, fast remote object system,

twisted.trial

A unit testing framework that integrates well with Twisted-based code.

Twisted supports integration of the Win32, Tk, GTK+ and GTK+ 2 event loops with its main event loop. There is experimental support for Mac OS X and wxPython event loop integration, which you use at your peril.

There are many official Twisted subprojects, including clients and servers for web, mail, DNS, and more.

Resources

• Community
• API reference