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

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