What is Twisted?
Twisted is a robust and versatile event-driven networking engine written in Python. It supports a wide range of network protocols and communication methods, including TCP, UDP, SSL/TLS, IP Multicast, Unix domain sockets, and a large number of higher-level protocols such as HTTP, XMPP, NNTP, IMAP, SSH, IRC, and FTP. Twisted is built on an event-driven programming paradigm, allowing developers to write compact, modular callback functions that are automatically invoked by the framework in response to network events. This flexible, asynchronous architecture enables Twisted-based applications to handle complex networking tasks efficiently and with a minimal amount of boilerplate code. Developers can leverage Twisted's powerful capabilities to build a diverse array of network-centric applications, from web servers and chat clients to distributed systems and network utilities
Highlights
- Supports a wide variety of network protocols and communication methods
- Event-driven programming model with modular callback functions
- Asynchronous architecture enables efficient handling of complex networking tasks
- Flexible and extensible framework for building diverse network-centric applications
Features
Python-based