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[Graham Binns <graham.binns@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 29 April 2014 12:12, Gavin Panella <gavin.panella@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Don't be afraid to read Twisted's source code. It can be difficult to
> get into the Twisted mindset, but once there you'll find it's not all
> that complex; it's just Python. It has history and idiosyncrasies,
> but, contrary to protestations of its legs being missing, it is being
> actively developed. From what I've read so far, Twisted also seems to
> have strongly inspired asyncio, the new async library in Python 3.4,
> so you're not wasting time on it. I suspect using Twisted with asyncio
> is already possible, but, by the time we get to Python 3, I think
> it'll be simple, so migrating will not be all-or-nothing.
>
> Then, if you get stuck, don't know where to start, or think you're
> doing it wrong, talk to me. I may not know the answer straight off,
> but I'll help find it.

Sweet. To be clear, I meant leery in the sense of "I might come
unstuck here, but I'll give it a go" rather than "oh my god I've been
asked to write it in FORTRAN, kill me."