I'm developing a TurboGears app that I want to aggregate some blogs onto the side of. Because CherryPy works from a thread pool, it seemed unwise to tie up a thread (or more) trying to download and parse RSS feeds from potentially unreliable sources.

Enter Twisted.

Twisted seemed a much better solution for fetching and parsing the feeds. Even more so since there's a recipe in the Python Cookbook on ASPN for doing just this. I used the recipe and added an XML-RPC publisher to it so that I could query the results from TurboGears. Overall I added perhaps a half dozen lines to the recipe and was finished.

I'm always amazed by Twisted and I really, really would like to move completely to it for all my server-side development. Someday I will. Someday, after Twisted-Web has a 'twisted-admin' command that builds me a skeleton application like tg-admin does. Someday when Nevow feels more coherent. Someday when I've got the time and deadlines aren't looming. Someday when I can perhaps implement a couple of these things myself.

Someday...