Jun 7, 2025 · API Documentation for Twisted, generated by pydoctor 24.11.2 at 2025-06-07 09:53:28.

Using TLS in Twisted requires that you have pyOpenSSL installed. A quick test to verify that you do is to run from OpenSSL import SSL at a python prompt and not get an error. Twisted provides TLS …

A Resource can either return a response as bytes or write to the request object. Session objects allow you to store information across multiple requests. Each individual browser using the system has a …

Jun 7, 2025 · Disconnect a database connection associated with this pool. Note: This function should only be used by the same thread which called ConnectionPool.connect. As with connect, this …

Jun 7, 2025 · Compatibility module to provide backwards compatibility for useful Python features. This is mainly for use of internal Twisted code. We encourage you to use the latest version of Python …

Using the Twisted Web Client Overview This document describes how to use the HTTP client included in Twisted Web. After reading it, you should be able to make HTTP and HTTPS requests using …

Twisted strives to make the nature of the “wire” as transparent as possible, with highly abstract interfaces for passing and receiving data, such as ITransport and IProtocol.

Twisted ships with a robust authentication framework to use with your application. If your server needs authentication functionality, and you haven’t read about twisted.cred yet, read up on it first.

Along with connection to servers across the internet, Twisted also connects to local processes with much the same API. The API is described in more detail in the documentation of:

A Twisted protocol handles data in an asynchronous manner. The protocol responds to events as they arrive from the network and the events arrive as calls to methods on the protocol.