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Twisted Network Programming Essentials 1st Edition

by Abe Fettig (Author)
2.9 2.9 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
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Twisted Network Programming Essentials from O'Reilly is a task-oriented look at this new open source, Python-based technology. The book begins with recommendations for various plug-ins and add-ons to enhance the basic package as installed. It then details Twisted's collection simple network protocols, and helper utilities. The book also includes projects that let you try out the Twisted framework for yourself. For example, you'll find examples of using Twisted to build web services applications using the REST architecture, using XML-RPC, and using SOAP.

Written for developers who want to start building applications using Twisted, this comprehensive guide presents examples of the most common tasks you'll face when building network applications. It also helps you understand the key concepts and design patterns used in Twisted applications. Here are just some of the topics discussed in Twisted Network Programming Essentials:

  • Installing Twisted
  • How to make TCP connections
  • How to use Twisted to work with the Web
  • Twisted's authentication framework
  • Usenet and SSH clients and servers

Along the way, each lesson is supported by thorough notes and explanations to make absolutely certain you're up to speed with this leading-edge Python technology.

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  1. ISBN-10
    0596100329
  2. ISBN-13
    978-0596100322
  3. Edition
    1st
  4. Publisher
    O'Reilly Media
  5. Publication date
    October 30, 2005
  6. Language
    English
  7. Dimensions
    7 x 0.57 x 9.19 inches
  8. Print length
    240 pages
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Abe Fettig is a software developer and maintainer of Hep, an open source message server that makes it possible to transparently route information between RSS, email, weblogs, and web services. He speaks frequently at software conferences including PyCon and lives in Portland, Maine with his wife, Hannah.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ O'Reilly Media; 1st edition (October 30, 2005)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 240 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0596100329
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0596100322
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 13.6 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 0.57 x 9.19 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    2.9 2.9 out of 5 stars 19 ratings

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Mark Nottingham
1.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing
Reviewed in the United States on October 2, 2009
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On the upside, this book is obviously written by someone who knows Twisted well, and shares the values of its developers.

On the downside, one of those shared values seems to be "documentation doesn't matter."

Twisted is well-known for being very poorly documented, forcing developers to regularly scan through mountains of abstracted source to find out what they need. I was hoping that this book would address that issue, by clearly documenting how and why Twisted works, what the different interfaces are, etc.

Unfortunately, it doesn't; instead, it only leads you through a number of canned examples. As soon as you want to step outside of any of the capabilities that's covered in them, you're on your own.
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C. Lung
5.0 out of 5 stars Very good intruduction to Twisted
Reviewed in the United States on November 7, 2005
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This is the documentation I've been waiting for to start learning Twisted. I originaly looked at Twisted a while back, but the documentation on the Twisted site was not helpful to me in learning how to get it all setup, working, and run a few examples. This book though does all this and more. I like the author's style of writting and theres no doubt that this book will be my de facto guide now for integrating Twisted into my software solutions.
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Justin
2.0 out of 5 stars Unsatisfied
Reviewed in the United States on April 11, 2011
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Let me just start by saying that this is, without question, the worst O'Reilly book I've ever tried to read.

This book doesn't introduce any of the Twisted concepts. It's just a bunch of near useless recipes without decent explanations. The book entirely consists of small sections of a couple of pages. There will be a couple paragraphs of something that Twisted might be used for, a page or two of code implementing it, and finally a page explanation of what was done. I wouldn't say that there's anything fundamentally wrong with presenting information in this way, but a book cannot stand completely on it.

There's no discussion on the overall structure or theory about the Twisted framework. The reader is suddenly thrown into these small recipes right away without much explanation.

I can usually pound through books like this. I read Lutz's "Programming Python" (~1200 pages IIRC)in about a week. However, I can't get beyond page 40 here. There's no cohesion. I don't feel like I'm learning anything about Twisted beyond the myopic recipe on which the author is currently focusing.

I'm just starting with the Online documentation, and it's much, much better. I would recommend starting online.

Fundamentally, this book doesn't fail because it's too advanced for beginners (Twisted beginners, not Python -- Python experience is a must for any level of Twisted development). It fails because it doesn't build upon itself or present a clear explanation of what Twisted is or does.

Do not buy.
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3.0 out of 5 stars eh, could be better, could be worse
Reviewed in the United States on December 15, 2008
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The book was a very basic introduction to twisted. For the most part it will really only benefit someone who is relatively new to Python and needs to perform some quick network programming.

The tutorials described were good to get someone familiar with the syntax and to show the basic implementation of twisted, but more time is spent reading the book then it would take just to get the documentation and learn it hands on. Any programmer that has poured a few hours into researching code and documentation would feel that this book was a waste of time.

So if you are new to Python and need to learn network programming this book should be able to point you in the right direction, but if you are an experienced programmer, just use the documentation on the website and donate some money to the maintainers instead.
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Mike
4.0 out of 5 stars A good book but needs a second addition.
Reviewed in the United States on November 30, 2010
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The only thing wrong with this book is that it needs an update. If your familiar with python and the changes that have taken place in the language you can easily adapt the examples to the current versions of python. I'm currently working with Python 3.1 and I am able to adapt the examples quite easily. It gives good explanations of the major components of the Twisted framework. The writing style is accessible. The information on the framework itself is not really outdated, it's just the language itself has undergone some change.
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Michael McClintock
1.0 out of 5 stars Wow, seriously flawed and outdated
Reviewed in the United States on March 4, 2010
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I bought this book because I was having trouble making sense out of the Twisted on-line documentation. I'm really a book guy, anyway, and felt I needed "The Book" for Twisted. When the first page equivalent of "Hello World" blows up on Python 2.6 because of some obscure deprecation issue, you know you are in for real problems. It gets worse from there. I think this book was probably a great title years ago when the Twisted bits and Python bits were more in sync. This book is seriously outdated and in need a huge revision.
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Paul Hummer
2.0 out of 5 stars Not for LEARNING Twisted
Reviewed in the United States on January 4, 2009
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When I first received this book, I saw that it was short and rejoiced. I usually never get through a 400 or 500 page programming book, because I get the early concepts, and then go off on a tangent, using the concepts in some way or another.

This book disappointed me. It went through some of the concepts of Twisted without really going into the details about some of the best parts of Twisted. The concepts of deferreds and the reactor event loop were skimmed over too quickly, and I never felt like I knew enough to implement any sort of server in Twisted.

There are better resources on the web to learn to develop with Twisted than this book provides.
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Nick Craig-Wood
3.0 out of 5 stars Lots of examples, not enough fundamentals
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 2, 2006
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Twisted is the Python asynchronous networking framework. It has the reputation of having a fearsome learning curve and I was hoping this book would help me overcome it.

Having now pretty much mastered twisted I can say that this book was less help than it should have been.

It lightly covers the many frameworks available in twisted: servers, clients, web, web servers, web rpc, authentication, mail, nntp, ssh, and processes. There is an example for everything.

The book is missing an explanation of the framework of twisted which is essential to using it. For instance the crucial subject of Deferred items was covered in 4 pages whereas it really deserved at least chapter on its own.

If you want to do something which is covered directly in the book then the book will make it easy. If it isn't covered directly then you'll struggle. I regret to say I got more out of reading twisted's source code than I did from this book.
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