There's a Twisted tutorial going on in the room next door right now. I asked someone what Twisted is all about. The easiest explaination is that it's POE, with a few extra bits bolted on: asynchronous event processing, messaging, IRC control of web servers, and mumble mumble security mumble.
I hear that Python programmers write all-encompassing object frameworks as a rite of passage much like Perl programmers write templating systems or content management systems. This is slightly confounding for Pythonfolk, because it voilates the principle that there's one way to do it.
There's a lesson lurking in here somewhere. I'm not sure what it is yet.
Perhaps the lesson is that, if there's more than one way to do it, then Python's way of doing it (insisting that there's only one way to do it) is a valid way.
Ow, head hurts. Isn't that twisted?
Or maybe it's just a lesson about decentralization and libertarianism.
