An event-driven networking engine

Written in Python

Licensed under the open source MIT License

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                $ virtualenv try-twisted
                $ . try-twisted/bin/activate
                $ pip install twisted[tls]
                $ twist --help
              
            
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About Twisted

More Protocols

Twisted also supports many common network protocols, including SMTP, POP3, IMAP, SSHv2, and DNS.

For more information see our documentation and API reference.

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Supported Python

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Twisted 20.3.0 was the last version with Python 2.7 and PyPy2 support.

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