Socket communications

[Jp Calderone]

On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 07:57:51AM -0800, Will Stuyvesant wrote:
> [Jp Calderone]
> > Twisted makes implementing this kind of protocol trivial.
> > 
> > (Untested code)
> > ...
> 
> Posting untested code is a demonstration of how much confidence you
> have in the modules you use.  

  It could just be that I was too lazy to take the time to test it, too. ;)

> But your example could use some
> explanations....like what does ``reactor`` do, and how about
> ``protocol``.

  Indeed!  In brief: transports (never explicitly used in the example) move
bytes around; protocols are given bytes and have the job of making sense of
them; factories instantiate new protocol objects when new connections are
made, and handle cleanup when they are lost; the reactor drives everything,
it is used to start servers listening and clients connecting, and contains
the mainloop function - reactor.run - the only function in Twisted that
blocks for any length of time.  For more details, these urls might be
interesting:

 http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/howto/reactor-basics
 http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/howto/servers
 http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/howto/clients

> Another thing is that on first sight your code is going to crash on an
> "unknown identifier ``port``" error but that one should be just an
> integer for the port number I guess.

  Yep.  host was left undefined (though commented out) as well ;)  Filling
these in is left as an exercise for the reader.

  Jp

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