Twisted makes it easy to implement custom network applications. Here's a TCP server that echoes back everything that's written to it:

Welcome to the Twisted documentation! Installing Twisted Hard dependencies Optional Dependencies Twisted Core Developer Guides Examples Specifications Twisted Conch (SSH …

Jun 7, 2025 · Twisted Internet is a collection of compatible event-loops for Python. It contains the code to dispatch events to interested observers and a portable API so that observers need not …

The major tool that manages Twisted applications is a command-line utility called twistd. twistd is cross platform, and is the recommended tool for running Twisted applications.

(You may also be interested in the legacy logging system if you are maintaining code written to work with older versions of Twisted.) Twisted RDBMS support with adbapi

Along with connection to servers across the internet, Twisted also connects to local processes with much the same API. The API is described in more detail in the documentation of:

Twisted strives to make the nature of the “wire” as transparent as possible, with highly abstract interfaces for passing and receiving data, such as ITransport and IProtocol. However, the …

Using TLS in Twisted requires that you have pyOpenSSL installed. A quick test to verify that you do is to run from OpenSSL import SSL at a python prompt and not get an error. Twisted …

A Twisted protocol handles data in an asynchronous manner. The protocol responds to events as they arrive from the network and the events arrive as calls to methods on the protocol.

Jun 7, 2025 · The reactor is the core of the event loop within Twisted – the loop which drives applications using Twisted. The event loop is a programming construct that waits for and …