Twisted Core is an asynchronous event loop and associated utilities, supporting TCP, UDP, multicast, SSL/TLS, serial communication and more. It is used by most of the servers, clients and protocols that are part of other [wiki:TwistedProjects].
The core "minimal" distribution contains a number of modules:
* twisted.internet, the Twisted event loop; * twisted.cred, a pluggable authentication system for servers; * twisted.enterprise, an asynchonous adaptor of Python DB-API 2.0 database interfaces; * twisted.manhole, a debugging service; * twisted.persisted, a collection of object persistance systems * twisted.protocols, a collection of helper protocols (such as a line-oriented helper, a length-prefixed helper, a netstrings helper, etc); * twisted.python, a set of Twisted programming abstractions; * twisted.spread, a network transport, serializer and object broker; * [wiki:TwistedTrial twisted.trial], a unit-testing framework; and
Twisted is available under the MIT Free Software licence.
See the [wiki:Downloads] page.
All sorts of documentation is available for Twisted Core, including a complete API reference of the full [wiki:TwistedProject] distribution.
Subscribe to the twisted-python mailing list or visit the #twisted channel on irc.libera.chat to ask questions.
Report a bug or request a feature using the issue tracker (registration required), or browse [query:status=new|assigned|reopened&component=core].