[Twisted-Python] Mimicking a blocking API using Twisted
Itamar Turner-Trauring
itamar at itamarst.org
Sun Mar 25 20:03:02 EDT 2012
On 03/25/2012 07:54 PM, Laurens Van Houtven wrote:
> The thing I'm documenting is a server, I'm documenting it by interacting with it as a client. I realize that doesn't entirely detract from your point -- you might still be introducing problems that would not affect a "real" client.
>
> My intention is to write BDD-ish stuff (except not with the usual cucumber-style scenario text).
This might be workable if the protocol is synchronous: send request, get
back response. This wouldn't work e.g. for a chat protocol. I bet you
could do something horrible where the doctest gets wrapped in an
inlineCallbacks wrapper, and then you can yield Deferreds.
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