Why Diesel?

You should write your next network application using diesel_.

Thanks to Python_ the syntax is clean and the development pace is rapid. Thanks to non-blocking I/O it's fast and scalable. Thanks to greenlets_ there's unwind(to(callbacks(no))). Thanks to nose_ it's trivial to test. Thanks to Flask_ you don't need to write a new web framework using it.

It provides a clean API for writing network clients and servers. TCP and UDP supported. It bundles battle-tested clients for HTTP, DNS, Redis, Riak and MongoDB. It makes writing network applications fun.

Read the documentation, browse the API and join the community in #diesel on freenode.

Prerequisites

You'll need the python-dev package as well as libffi-dev, or your platform's equivalents.

Installation

Diesel is an active project. Your best bet to stay up with the latest at this point is to clone from github.::

git clone git://github.com/jamwt/diesel.git

Once you have a clone, cd to the diesel directory and install it.::

pip install .

or::

python setup.py install

or::

python setup.py develop

For More Information

Documentation and more can be found on the diesel_ website.

Python 3?

Not yet. Here are dependencies blocking the transition:

.. image:: https://caniusepython3.com/project/diesel.svg :target: https://caniusepython3.com/project/diesel

.. _Python: http://www.python.org/ .. _greenlets: http://readthedocs.org/docs/greenlet/en/latest/ .. _nose: http://readthedocs.org/docs/nose/en/latest/ .. _Flask: http://flask.pocoo.org/ .. _diesel: http://diesel.io/