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<h1 class="title">Overview of Twisted Internet</h1>
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<p>Twisted Internet is a collection of compatible event-loops for Python.
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It contains the code to dispatch events to interested observers and a portable
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API so that observers need not care about which event loop is running. Thus,
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it is possible to use the same code for different loops, from Twisted's basic,
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yet portable, <code>select</code>-based loop to the loops of various GUI
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toolkits like GTK+ or Tk.</p>
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<p>Twisted Internet contains the various interfaces to the reactor
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API, whose usage is documented in the low-level chapter. Those APIs
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are <code class="API"><a href="http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/10.0.0/api/twisted.internet.interfaces.IReactorCore.html" title="twisted.internet.interfaces.IReactorCore">IReactorCore</a></code>,
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<code class="API"><a href="http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/10.0.0/api/twisted.internet.interfaces.IReactorTCP.html" title="twisted.internet.interfaces.IReactorTCP">IReactorTCP</a></code>,
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<code class="API"><a href="http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/10.0.0/api/twisted.internet.interfaces.IReactorSSL.html" title="twisted.internet.interfaces.IReactorSSL">IReactorSSL</a></code>,
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<code class="API"><a href="http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/10.0.0/api/twisted.internet.interfaces.IReactorUNIX.html" title="twisted.internet.interfaces.IReactorUNIX">IReactorUNIX</a></code>,
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<code class="API"><a href="http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/10.0.0/api/twisted.internet.interfaces.IReactorUDP.html" title="twisted.internet.interfaces.IReactorUDP">IReactorUDP</a></code>,
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<code class="API"><a href="http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/10.0.0/api/twisted.internet.interfaces.IReactorTime.html" title="twisted.internet.interfaces.IReactorTime">IReactorTime</a></code>,
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<code class="API"><a href="http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/10.0.0/api/twisted.internet.interfaces.IReactorProcess.html" title="twisted.internet.interfaces.IReactorProcess">IReactorProcess</a></code>,
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<code class="API"><a href="http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/10.0.0/api/twisted.internet.interfaces.IReactorMulticast.html" title="twisted.internet.interfaces.IReactorMulticast">IReactorMulticast</a></code>
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and <code class="API"><a href="http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/10.0.0/api/twisted.internet.interfaces.IReactorThreads.html" title="twisted.internet.interfaces.IReactorThreads">IReactorThreads</a></code>.
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The reactor APIs allow non-persistent calls to be made.</p>
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<p>Twisted Internet also covers the interfaces for the various transports,
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in <code class="API"><a href="http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/10.0.0/api/twisted.internet.interfaces.ITransport.html" title="twisted.internet.interfaces.ITransport">ITransport</a></code>
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and friends. These interfaces allow Twisted network code to be written without
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regard to the underlying implementation of the transport.</p>
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<p>The <code class="API"><a href="http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/10.0.0/api/twisted.internet.interfaces.IProtocolFactory.html" title="twisted.internet.interfaces.IProtocolFactory">IProtocolFactory</a></code>
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dictates how factories, which are usually a large part of third party code, are
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