Twisted includes an event-driven web server. Here's a sample web application; notice how the resource object persists in memory, rather than being recreated on each request:
Welcome to the Twisted documentation! Installing Twisted Hard dependencies Optional Dependencies Twisted Core Developer Guides Examples Specifications Twisted Conch (SSH and Telnet) Developer Guides Examples Twisted Mail (SMTP, POP, and IMAP) Examples Developer Guides Twisted Mail Tutorial: Building an SMTP Client from Scratch Twisted Names ...
Installing Twisted To install the latest version of Twisted using pip: $ pip install twisted Hard dependencies To use Twisted you need to install a set of depend libraries. The exact list can be found in the pyproject.toml file in section [project], option dependencies.
Reactor Overview This HOWTO introduces the Twisted reactor, describes the basics of the reactor and links to the various reactor interfaces. Reactor Basics 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 dispatches events or messages in a program. It works by calling some ...
Using the Twisted Web Client Overview This document describes how to use the HTTP client included in Twisted Web. After reading it, you should be able to make HTTP and HTTPS requests using Twisted Web. You will be able to specify the request method, headers, and body and you will be able to retrieve the response code, headers, and body. A number of higher-level features are also explained ...
WebSockets Twisted Web provides support for the WebSocket protocol for clients (such as web browsers) to connect to resources and receive bi-directional communication with the server. For the purposes of our example here, you will need to have some familiarity with the concepts covered in serving static content and rpy scripts, because we will be using those to construct our resource hierarchy.