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I really can't understand you. The way I'm reading your first sentence in this paragraph is so silly that I must be misreading the intention. Maybe the problem is that you don't understand what twistd plugins really are. If you care, I recommend reading the URL that Michal referred to earlier:
http://twistedmatrix.com/projects/core/documentation/howto/tap.html
Thanks for the second nudge here. The big note about how this is not the same as tap files cleared it up for me. So to get what I want, I'd write a plugin for Tape, then wrap that with some user friendly python to hide the non-essential command line options or the fact that I need twistd. It sounds like a reasonable first step to making this better would be to have some way to hook into twistd from the code side. Perhaps this is already possible? jack.