Feb. 1, 2011
5:15 a.m.
Jason Heeris wrote: [...]
2. What is a Factory, anyway? What are they *for*?
<http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/current/core/howto/glossary.html#Factory> says: In general, an object that constructs other objects. In Twisted, a Factory usually refers to a twisted.internet.protocol.Factory, which constructs Protocol instances for incoming or outgoing connections. See Writing Servers and Writing Clients. (I couldn't resist the opportunity to link to the glossary after the recent thread about it...) -Andrew.