[Twisted-Python] Re: Teach Me Twisted?
Jean-Paul Calderone
exarkun at divmod.com
Fri Jan 25 19:13:34 EST 2008
On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 18:49:46 -0500, Steve Holden <steve at holdenweb.com> wrote:
>Cary Hull wrote:
>>Hey, I think some Twisted related sessions at PyCon would be great.
>>Based on what's been discussed so far, I would like to humbly suggest
>>the following (kind of breaking it down):
>>
>>1) Simple line based chat server/client.
>>2) Same thing except using AMP.
>>3) twistd and plugins
>
>These are things I would really like to get to, but I'm pretty sure half an
>hour isn't going to cover it. Maybe we should be thinking BOF instead, then
>we can take an evening over it under less stressful conditions (and, who
>knows, even drink a beer or two in the process).
Maybe I can get you to go a little bit further than that in restricting
what you'd like to see covered.
Off the top of my head, and only continuing until I get bored with making
this point, here's what a "Twisted" session could cover:
* event driven programming
* Deferreds (making them; using them; debugging them; defgen;
locks/semaphors)
* core reactor APIs
* scheduling
* implementing existing (TCP; UDP; IP) protocols
* designing new (TCP; UDP; IP) protocols
* using existing protocols in twisted core
* integrating a protocol implementation with cred
* process control/interaction
* implementing a realm
* implementing credentials/checkers
* writing services
* writing plugins (twistd; lore; cred)
* handy general-purpose python utilities
* adding new kinds of event sources to the reactor
* gui/pygame/etc integration
* threading
* using SQL databases
* Perspective Broker
* writing unit tests
* using trial
* extending trial
Wandering outside of the core of Twisted:
* serving web pages
* running a chat server
* extending the chat server
* jabber (jabber; jabber; jabber; sasl; jabber)
* marking up documentation
* dns servers and clients
* usenet servers and clients
* ssh/sftp clients/servers
* telnet clients/servers
* asynchronous terminal interaction
* terminal widget rendering
* smtp client/server
* imap4 client/server
* pop3 client/server
Are any of these the things you have in mind? Can I get you to pick
a very small number of them (1 or 2 per hour at most, I suspect; some
are smaller, others are quite large)? Or did you have something else
in mind?
Jean-Paul
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