[Twisted-Python] How to force synchronous behavior

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On Sat, 29 Oct 2005 14:58:13 -0400, Jean-Paul Calderone <exarkun at divmod.com> wrote:
>On Sat, 29 Oct 2005 10:41:45 -0700, Scott Lamb <slamb at slamb.org> wrote:

>>Why does twisted contain functions which are never to be used? If it  can't 
>>be fixed, why not remove it?

>Why were they added in the first place?  It was mistakenly thought that they 
>might be able to work.

And why not remove it?  The test cases still depend on this functionality (and are fragile and break non-deterministically in part because of it) and it is a significant effort to fix them all.  This effort is underway.