You may also find Foundations of Python Network Programming useful - it has large sections on twisted, particularly IMAP (http://www.complete.org/publications/pynet/)
You can also read these useful reviews of the above as well as the O'Reilly book, written by a Twisted dev: http://eagain.net/articles/review-pynet/ http://eagain.net/articles/review-snakeball/ Cheers, Reza On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 6:12 AM, Robert Gravina <rob...@gravina.com> wrote: >> I'm fairly new to Python and very new to Twisted. I find I learn new >> material best from a book, so although I know there's lots of great >> documentation and examples on twistedmatrix.com, I was considering >> getting O'Reilly's Twisted book ('Twisted Network Programming >> Essentials' by Abe Fettig). But that book dates back to Oct 2005 so I >> was wondering if it's still a worthwhile purchase - I'd guess Twisted >> has moved a good bit since the book was written. Any opinions? > > I got that book and to be honest, didn't find it very useful due to it > being a nutshell book - it can't (due to size) go into much detail in > each section and so I found the online documentation/tutorials were a > better resource. > > A more detailed Twisted book would be awesome though! I think > pragprog.com share 50% of the profits with authors (and do ebooks and > betas too), so maybe someone might be interested in writing it :) > > Of course noone would complain about a community edited book like what > the Django project has, either. :) > > Robert > > _______________________________________________ > Twisted-Python mailing list > Twisted-Python@twistedmatrix.com > http://twistedmatrix.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twisted-python > -- Reza Lotun +44 (0)7521 310 763 rlo...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ Twisted-Python mailing list Twisted-Python@twistedmatrix.com http://twistedmatrix.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twisted-python
