[Twisted-Python] New client APIs

[Itamar Shtull-Trauring]

Andrew Bennetts wrote:

> FTP doesn't want any sort of reconnection funny-business going on.  If the
> data connection fails, I just want to know about that and send an error
> message, rather than do any sort of reconnection.  reactor.clientTCP used to
> do that.  I'm not sure what the equivalent now is?  Do I need to make a
> ClientFactory subclass that implements these "try once then give up" sematics?
> If so, should that be a standard utility class?

That's exactly what ClientFactory does. It does *not* reconnect 
automatically - that's up to you to decide. See docstrings for 
ClientFactory.connectionLost and .connectionFailed.