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Twisted 8.2.0
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Quote of the Release:
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<itamar> exarkun: how exactly are you approaching the web2/web tickets?
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<exarkun> three man teams, radio silence, weapons-free rules of engagement
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For information on what's new in Twisted 8.2.0, see the NEWS file that
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comes with the distribution.
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What is this?
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=============
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Twisted is an event-based framework for internet applications which works on
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Python 2.3 through 2.6. The following are some of the modules included
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with Twisted::
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- twisted.application
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A "Service" system that allows you to organize your application in
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hierarchies with well-defined startup and dependency semantics,
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- twisted.cred
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A general credentials and authentication system that facilitates
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pluggable authentication backends,
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- twisted.enterprise
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Asynchronous database access, compatible with any Python DBAPI2.0
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modules,
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- twisted.internet
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Low-level asynchronous networking APIs that allow you to define
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your own protocols that run over certain transports,
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- twisted.manhole
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A tool for remote debugging of your services which gives you a
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Python interactive interpreter,
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- twisted.protocols
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Basic protocol implementations and helpers for your own protocol
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implementations,
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- twisted.python
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A large set of utilities for Python tricks, reflection, text
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processing, and anything else,
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- twisted.spread
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A secure, fast remote object system,
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- twisted.trial
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A unit testing framework that integrates well with Twisted-based code.
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Twisted supports integration of the Tk, GTK+, GTK+ 2, Qt, Mac OS X,
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or wxPython event loop with its main event loop. The Win32 event
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loop is also supported.
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For more information, visit http://www.twistedmatrix.com, or join the list
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at http://twistedmatrix.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twisted-python
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There are many official Twisted subprojects, including clients and
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servers for web, mail, DNS, and more. You can find out more about
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these projects at http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/wiki/TwistedProjects
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Installing
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==========
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Instructions for installing this software are in INSTALL.
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Unit Tests
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==========
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See our unit tests run proving that the software is BugFree(TM)::
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% trial twisted
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Some of these tests may fail if you
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* don't have the dependancies required for a particular subsystem installed,
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* have a firewall blocking some ports (or things like Multicast, which Linux
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NAT has shown itself to do), or
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* run them as root.
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Documentation and Support
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=========================
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Examples on how to use Twisted APIs are located in doc/examples;
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this might ease the learning curve a little bit, since all these
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files are kept as short as possible. The file doc/howto/index.xhtml
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contains an index of all the HOWTOs: this should be your starting
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point when looking for documentation.
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Help is available on the Twisted mailing list::
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http://twistedmatrix.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twisted-python
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There is also a very lively IRC channel, #twisted, on
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irc.freenode.net.
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Copyright
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=========
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All of the code in this distribution is Copyright (c) 2001-2008
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Twisted Matrix Laboratories.
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Twisted is made available under the MIT license. The included
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LICENSE file describes this in detail.
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Warranty
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========
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THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER
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EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES
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OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS
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TO THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE IS WITH YOU.
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IN NO EVENT WILL ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER, OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MAY MODIFY
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AND/OR REDISTRIBUTE THE LIBRARY, BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ANY DAMAGES, EVEN IF
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SUCH HOLDER OR OTHER PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH
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DAMAGES.
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Again, see the included LICENSE file for specific legal details.
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