6 <keturn> efnet is the cutting edge of hanging out with people on the internet in the '90s
9 For information on what's new in Twisted 12.1.0, see the NEWS file that comes
10 with the distribution.
15 Twisted is an event-based framework for internet applications. It includes
16 modules for many different purposes, including the following:
19 A "Service" system that allows you to organize your application in
20 hierarchies with well-defined startup and dependency semantics,
22 A general credentials and authentication system that facilitates
23 pluggable authentication backends,
25 Asynchronous database access, compatible with any Python DBAPI2.0
28 Low-level asynchronous networking APIs that allow you to define
29 your own protocols that run over certain transports,
31 A tool for remote debugging of your services which gives you a
32 Python interactive interpreter,
34 Basic protocol implementations and helpers for your own protocol
37 A large set of utilities for Python tricks, reflection, text
38 processing, and anything else,
40 A secure, fast remote object system,
42 A unit testing framework that integrates well with Twisted-based code.
44 Twisted supports integration of the Win32, Tk, GTK+ and GTK+ 2 event loops
45 with its main event loop. There is experimental support for Mac OS X and
46 wxPython event loop integration, which you use at your peril.
48 For more information, visit http://www.twistedmatrix.com, or join the list
49 at http://twistedmatrix.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twisted-python
51 There are many official Twisted subprojects, including clients and
52 servers for web, mail, DNS, and more. You can find out more about
53 these projects at http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/wiki/TwistedProjects
59 Instructions for installing this software are in INSTALL.
65 See our unit tests run proving that the software is BugFree(TM):
69 Some of these tests may fail if you
70 * don't have the dependancies required for a particular subsystem installed,
71 * have a firewall blocking some ports (or things like Multicast, which Linux
72 NAT has shown itself to do), or
76 Documentation and Support
77 =========================
79 Examples on how to use Twisted APIs are located in doc/core/examples; this
80 might ease the learning curve a little bit, since all these files are kept
81 as short as possible. The file doc/core/howto/index.xhtml contains an index
82 of all the core HOWTOs: this should be your starting point when looking for
85 Help is available on the Twisted mailing list:
87 http://twistedmatrix.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twisted-python
89 There is also a very lively IRC channel, #twisted, on
96 All of the code in this distribution is Copyright (c) 2001-2012
97 Twisted Matrix Laboratories.
99 Twisted is made available under the MIT license. The included
100 LICENSE file describes this in detail.
106 THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER
107 EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES
108 OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS
109 TO THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE IS WITH YOU.
111 IN NO EVENT WILL ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER, OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MAY MODIFY
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113 SUCH HOLDER OR OTHER PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH
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