Twisted makes it easy to implement custom network applications. Here's a TCP server that echoes back everything that's written to it:

The major tool that manages Twisted applications is a command-line utility called twistd. twistd is cross platform, and is the recommended tool for running Twisted applications.

After reading this document, the reader should expect to be able to deal with most simple APIs in Twisted and Twisted-using code that return Deferreds.

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Twisted Web provides an abstraction of this browser-tracking behavior called the Session object . Calling request.getSession () checks to see if a session cookie has been set; if not, it creates a …

Let’s use Twisted to create a simple websocket server, and then build a web-browser based client to communicate with it. To begin with, we will need a folder with 3 files in it.

This document is for readers new to Twisted who are familiar with the Python programming language and, at least conceptually, with core networking concepts such as servers, clients …

stdiodemo.py - example using stdio, Deferreds, LineReceiver and twisted.web.client. ptyserv.py - serve shells in pseudo-terminals over TCP courier.py - example of interfacing to Courier’s mail …

Twisted includes log observers which take care of most of the “normal” uses of logging, like writing messages to a file, saving them as text, filtering them, and so on.

Always use this argument unless you are adding further callbacks or errbacks to the passed-in Deferreds, or unless you know that they will not fail. Otherwise, a failure will result in an …