On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 5:10 PM, Jake Angulo <jake.ang...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 2:36 PM, Aseem Bansal <asmbans...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I wanted to do a little project for learning Python. I thought a chat >> system will be good as it isn't something that I have ever done. >> ............... >> >> I wanted to know what will I need? >> 1 learn network/socket programming > > > I was actually expecting somebody to mention Twisted :) > (or Tornado) > > You'll find it easy to use any of these frameworks to power the back-end > chat engine.
For something this simple, what do they offer above the basic socket module? I know that sounds critical but it's not meant to be; I've never looked into either, as I've grown up using the BSD socket APIs (in C, 80x86 assembly, C++, REXX, Java, Pike, and Python, on DOS (I think), OS/2, Windows, and Linux... and possibly other languages/platforms that I've now forgotten), and am comfortable with them; but for someone who hasn't been in networking for two decades, is there a noteworthy ease-of-starting difference? Bear in mind that use of a framework locks you in to that framework and its ecosystem (so, most likely, language), while grokking sockets themselves gives you the freedom to move as required. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
