Crochet is an MIT-licensed library that makes it easier to use Twisted from regular blocking code: from __future__ import print_function from twisted.names import client from crochet import setup, wait_for setup() @wait_for(timeout=5.0) def gethostbyname(name): """Use the Twisted DNS library.""" d = client.lookupAddress(name) d.addCallback(lambda result: result[0][0].payload.dottedQuad()) return d if __name__ == '__main__': # Application code using the public API - notice it works in a normal # blocking manner, with no event loop visible: import sys name = sys.argv[1] ip = gethostbyname(name) print(name, "->", ip) New in 1.4.0 is Python 3.4 support as well as support for using Crochet with uWSGI, and additional documentation on workarounds for various limitations of Crochet. https://pypi.python.org/pypi/crochet for downloads. https://crochet.readthedocs.org/ for documentation. --Itamar Turner-Trauring