[nycbug-talk] twisted python resources

[pete wright]

On Jan 29, 2005, at 9:24 AM, Bob Ippolito wrote:

> On Jan 28, 2005, at 19:27, Pete Wright wrote:
>
>> so i'm looking to write a "simple" messaging client
>> for my network in python.  it's more of an exercise to
>> get me up to speed on programming in python, but will
>> hopefully be usefull for us.  as i know there are several
>> python devs here...what would you all suggest as good
>> places to look for examples, doc and tutorials.
>>
>> i've started checking out using twisted (as it seems
>> quite popular and well designed)...so maybe something
>> relating to doing dev with twisted would be helpfull
>
> This is just an example of how much Twisted can do for you.  This is a 
> trivial chat server for Macromedia Flash's XMLSocket feature.  
> Basically what it does is it forwards messages that a client sends to 
> every connected user (including the sender).  It's great for testing.  
> For scalability and security purposes, you will of course want to use 
> a SSL connection and NOT forward every message to every user, but this 
> is good enough to get started with.  The server has "no protocol", in 
> that it doesn't understand what's going on beyond using '\x00' (the C 
> string terminator, ASCII NULL, zero, whatever you want to call it) as 
> a delimiter.  In this scenario, it is up to the clients to be "smart" 
> enough to figure out what to do.  If you leave the delimiter 
> specification out, it will default to '\r\n' or '\n' (I don't 
> recall).. in which case you can telnet into it and it will redirect 
> lines to all connected clients.
>
> -bob
>
> # testserver.py
> # run with twistd -noy testserver.py
> # opens a TCP server on all interfaces on port 50000
>
> from twisted.application import service, internet
> from twisted.protocols import basic
> from twisted.internet import protocol
>
> class MyChat(basic.LineOnlyReceiver):
>     delimiter = '\x00'
>
>     def connectionMade(self):
>         print "Got new client!"
>         self.factory.clients.append(self)
>
>     def connectionLost(self, reason):
>         print "Lost a client!"
>         self.factory.clients.remove(self)
>
>     def lineReceived(self, line):
>         print "received", repr(line)
>         for c in self.factory.clients:
>             c.message(line)
>
>     def message(self, message):
>         self.sendLine(message)
>
> factory = protocol.ServerFactory()
> factory.protocol = MyChat
> factory.clients = []
>
>
> application = service.Application("TrivialServer")
> internet.TCPServer(
>     50000, factory,
> ).setServiceParent(application)


that's wicked bob thanks!  one thing i noticed on friday was that 
either twisted is not installed on our systems or it's not installed in 
an easily located place.  to get around this I was going to just 
install it in $HOME altho it looks like i may have to edit the 
install.py to make this happen ok....is there a big gotcha going this 
route.  if so i can do the dev. work on boxen off our production 
network.

-p


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