Python Twisted Tutorial

Twisted is an event-driven network engine.

Its more general than CMS-like frameworks such as Flask or Django.

You can create many network applications including a custom server, low level sockets echo client, Bit-torrent client or even create a mail client.
Protocols

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Protocols

You don’t have to define the protocol. Twisted includes lots and lots of protocol implementations:

That includes: HTTP, FTP, SMTP, POP3, IMAP4, DNS, IRC, MSN, OSCAR, XMPP/Jabber, telnet, SSH, SSL, NNTP.

Install

Python Twisted can be installed with the command

pip install twisted

It’s recommended to use a virtual environment (virtualenv)

You can install virtualenv with pip:

pip install virtualenv

Navigate to your projects directory. Then run the commands below:

$virtualenv try-twisted
$ . try-twisted/bin/activate
$ pip install twisted[tls]
$ twist --help

Server

Twist supports many protocols out of the box.

A web server will be stared if you type the command

twist web

To open an ftp server, simply type

twist ftp

If you type the twist command you can see an overview of all supported protocols.