Get started with Twisted, the event-driven asynchronous networking engine written in Python, and work with higher-level protocols with ease. With this book, you'll learn how to use Twisted to develop web services, email-enable your applications, write your own web server, and more. Through complete real-world examples, you'll go deep into Twisted's collection of object persistence systems, simple network protocols, and helper utilities. And you'll get recommendations for various plug-ins and add-ons to enhance the basic package. Discover how Twisted brings more power and flexibility to Python programmers.