[Twisted-Python] Wanting to use Twisted, but a dependency uses asyncio

Justin Myles Holmes twotonespirit at gmail.com
Sun Aug 27 12:36:55 MDT 2017


Sure, syntactically it seems pretty close to gravy.

But I'm wondering about flow control: if a project like kademlia is using
the ayncio event loop, is it still practical to use twisted?

On Sun, Aug 27, 2017 at 11:35 AM, Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc at crodrigues.org>
wrote:

> Twisted 17.5.0 has new code to interoperate between Python's asyncio and
> "async def":
>
> https://twistedmatrix.com/documents/current/core/howto/
> defer-intro.html#coroutines-with-async-await
>
> One example of where this is used is in Klein, a web microframework built
> on top of Twisted:
>
> https://klein.readthedocs.io/en/latest/examples/await.html
>
>
> Also, over 93% of Twisted's tests pass on Python 3:
>
> https://www.slideshare.net/CraigRodrigues1/the-onward-
> journey-porting-twisted-to-python-3
>
> So I think that it is quite possible to look at using Twisted in a project
> which is using Python asyncio.
>
> --
> Craig
>
> On Sun, Aug 27, 2017 at 11:06 AM, Justin Myles Holmes <
> twotonespirit at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hey friends.
>>
>> I'm in a position that is probably increasingly common.  I'm working on a
>> project that has a dependency that uses asyncio (kademlia).
>>
>> However, I much prefer to use Twisted.
>>
>> What's are some best practices for this at the moment?
>>
>>


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