FeaturesΒΆ
Core Features:
- Event Driven (message passing)
- Component Architecture (directed graph of components)
- Event Feedback Channels (callbacks)
- Event Handler Inheritance (component polymorphism)
- Values and Future Values (returned, deferred and future values)
- Remote Bridging (remote support)
- Asynchronous Networking and I/O (non-blocking)
Networking (components):
- TCPServer, TCPClient
- UDPServer, UDPClient
- UNIXServer, UNIXClient
- Pipe
Polling (components):
- Select, Poll, EPoll
Protocol (components):
- Line, IRC, HTTP
Other Features:
- Small and lightweight.
- Pure python implementation. No C extension modules required.
- Compatible with Python 2.5, 2.6, 2.7 and 3.x (coming soon).
- High performance event framework (See: Performance on the wiki).
- Built-in developer tools: Debugger, circuits.tools
- Application components: Daemon, Log.
- Asynchronous I/O components: File, Serial.
- Web framework: circuits.web
