Pulsar

A concurrent framework for Python. Concurrent here stands for asynchronous and parallel execution. Tested in Windows and Linux, it requires python 2.6 up to python 3.3 in a single code base.

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Application Framework

Pulsar application framework is built on top of pulsar concurrent framework. It is designed to facilitate the development of both server-side applications such as web servers, task queues as well as asynchronous clients. To write a new server-side application, you subclass pulsar.apps.Application or any of the shipped applications listed below, and implement some of the callbacks available.

Currently, pulsar is shipped with the following applications which can be found in the pulsar.apps module:

Servers

• Socket Servers
• WSGI
• Distributed Task Queue
• Asynchronous Test Suite
• Asynchronous Shell

Middleware

• JSON-RPC
• WebSockets
• Publish/Subscribe
• Twisted Integration
• Django Application

Clients

• Asynchornous HTTP client

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