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Part 4: Twisted Poetry This continues the introduction started here. You can find an index to the entire series here. Our First Twisted Client Although Twisted is probably more often used to write servers, clients are simpler than servers and we’re starting out as simply as possible. Let’s try out our first poetry client written [...]

An excellent modern detective novel.

Shubin examines traces of our non-human past in our bodies and DNA.

Part 3: Our Eye-beams Begin to Twist This continues the introduction started here. You can find an index to the entire series here. Doing Nothing, the Twisted Way Eventually we are going to re-implement our asynchronous poetry client using Twisted. But first let’s write a few really simple Twisted programs just to get the flavor [...]

A fine collection of r.crumb drawings of blues and country musicians from the 20′s and 30′s. Each sketch includes a short bibliography and the book comes with a CD of selected music.

Wow. I think this series has surpassed Martin’s Ice and Fire. I have to respect any epic fantasy author who can manage to work in not one, but two cantankerous puppets only three books in. For all I know, the fourth book is all puppets all the time. And I’ll read it, too.

Part 2: Slow Poetry and the Apocalypse This continues the introduction started here. And if you read it, welcome back. Now we’re going to get our hands dirty and write some code. But first, let’s get some assumptions out of the way. My Assumptions About You I will proceed as if you have a basic [...]

Part 1: In Which We Begin at the Beginning Preface Someone recently posted to the Twisted mailing list asking for something like the “Twisted introduction for people on a deadline”. Full disclosure: this isn’t it. On the spectrum of introductions to Twisted and asynchronous programming in Python, it may be on the exact opposite end. [...]

Zorba vs Buddha.

If only Hammett had turned these characters into a series.