Twisted

Twisted is an asynchronous networking framework written in Python, supporting TCP, UDP, multicast, SSL/TLS, serial communication and more. It is used by most of the servers, clients and protocols that are part of other Twisted projects.

Twisted contains a number of modules:

• twisted.cred, a pluggable authentication system for servers;
• twisted.enterprise, an asynchonous adaptor of Python DB-API 2.0 database interfaces;
• twisted.internet, the Twisted event loop;
• twisted.manhole, a debugging service;
• twisted.persisted, a collection of object persistance systems
• twisted.protocols, a collection of simple network protocols and helper utilities;
• twisted.python, a set of Twisted programming abstractions;
• twisted.spread, a network transport, serializer and object broker;
• twisted.trial, a unit-testing framework; and

Twisted is available under the  MIT Free Software licence.

Download

• Stable: Download the latest release - 2.2.0!  Release announcement
  •  Tarball of all of Twisted; this includes core 2.2.0 as well as the latest versions of TwistedWeb, TwistedConch, etc..
  •  Win32 installer for Python 2.4
  •  Win32 installer for Python 2.3
  •  Minimal tarbal; this includes only core Twisted (i.e. without TwistedMail, TwistedWeb, etc.) and is only recommended for advanced users.
• Trunk: svn co  svn://svn.twistedmatrix.com/svn/Twisted/trunk Twisted

Documentation

 All sorts of documentation is available for Twisted, including a complete  API reference of Twisted and all subprojects.

Contact

Subscribe to the  twisted-python mailing list or visit the #twisted channel on irc.freenode.net to ask questions.

Report a bug or request a feature using the issue tracker (registration required).