[Twisted-Python] Beginners Guide to Twisted Anywhere?

Sergio Trejo serj_trejo at hotmail.com
Sun Aug 1 17:40:44 EDT 2004


Britt,

Your sentiments are another reminder as to why a book would be welcome!

Serg

>From: Britt Green <seamonkeys at gmail.com>
>Reply-To: Twisted general discussion <twisted-python at twistedmatrix.com>
>To: Twisted general discussion <twisted-python at twistedmatrix.com>
>Subject: Re: [Twisted-Python] Beginners Guide to Twisted Anywhere?
>Date: Sun, 1 Aug 2004 14:22:54 -0700
>
>You know, I've looked at the finger tutorial a few times. The problem
>is that it doesn't really explain the code very well. Sure, I can look
>at the first few examples and make an educated guess. For example,
>lets look at the second step:
>
>from twisted.internet import protocol, reactor
>class FingerProtocol(protocol.Protocol):
>     pass
>class FingerFactory(protocol.ServerFactory):
>     protocol = FingerProtocol
>reactor.listenTCP(1079, FingerFactory())
>reactor.run()
>
>The accompanying explaination never really explains what
>protocol.Protocol is. Same thing with protocol.ServerFactory. I've
>been able to deduce what reactor.listenTCP() and reactor.run() do, but
>as someone new to the language, its a bit frustrating to have to make
>guesses about what the tutorial code does.
>
>Britt
>
>On Sun, 01 Aug 2004 15:49:19 -0400, Jp Calderone <exarkun at divmod.com> 
>wrote:
> >
> >
> > Britt Green wrote:
> > > I'm wondering if there exists a beginners guide to using Twisted.
> > > Something similar to the online tutorial for Python. I've browsed the
> > > docs on the Twisted website, and haven't been able to find what I'm
> > > looking for. Specifically, a lot of the examples are mostly just code
> > > with brief commentary which doesn't really explain things.
> > >
> > > Can someone help me out! :)
> >
> >    You may be interested in the finger tutorial:
> >
> >      http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/howto/tutorial/index
> >
> >    Jp
> >
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