[Twisted-Python] Soon to be not-a-newbie?

[Simon Pickles]

L. Daniel Burr wrote:
>
> You make no mention of interfaces, which I think are key to 
> understanding Twisted.
>
Oh ok, this is interesting. I have been dabbling for ages on and off 
with twisted and I heard my first mention of interfaces YESTERDAY in the 
o'Reilly book (it didn't explain them either!)

Please, tell me more!


>> (btw, ALL tutorials never make clear which functions are overridden, 
>> and which are newly-defined)
>>
>
> There's a good point.  Perhaps the tutorials should provide more links to
> the API documentation, specifically, to the interfaces being implemented
> by these classes.  Once you look at the interfaces a given class 
> implements,
> it is easy to see what is being overridden.
>
Maybe a simple naming convention would help here. noLeadingCaps for 
twisted functions and LeadingCaps for defined? or a few inline comments 
in code samples? ;)

> I note the smiley, but still, you're exaggerating quite a bit here.  For
> most jobs, you do the same basic dance:
>
> - create a protocol
> - create a factory
> - create a driver script, or a service if you need a daemon.
>
I had to admit, as I wrote my criticism, it didn't 'sound' as tricky as 
it once had!

I know I will grow to really like twisted. Maybe its just very BIG. When 
you start, you don't know which parts are useful to you. eg, I was using 
twisted.internet loads, and battling with threaded SQL queries until I 
stumbled across twisted.enterprise.adbapi. Good job I did!

Nice to pick your brain!

ta

Simon