Jonathan Ellis wrote: > On 10/30/07, Jordy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> As an up-and-coming python hacker, I've been intrigued by what I've read >> about twisted. Does anyone here have experience with it? Can you >> recommend it / advise against it for writing network servers in python? > > I'm not really a fan because > > 1) for whatever reason twisted seems to prefer to reinvent wheels > rather than work with the rest of the python community
A specific example is logging. Python has a logging package and Twisted has a different, slightly incompatible logging package. There is no good reason for this except historical baggage. It's true that the Twisted community needs to try harder to use other people's libraries instead of invent their own. However, Twisted provides a lot of stuff that really does not exist elsewhere. All those asynchronous server protocols make it easy to build interesting services without poring over RFCs. > 2) twisted's many layers of abstraction add a significant amount of > overhead -- function calls are not cheap in python Twisted is certainly not an ideal web server (I like mod_wsgi a lot for that purpose), but those abstractions are powerful for building failure-tolerant network services. Shane /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
