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 Werkzeug 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.
You'll need the python3-dev package as well as libffi-dev, or your platform's equivalents (required by cryptography package).
Diesel is an active project. Your best bet to stay up with the latest at this point is to clone from github.:
$ git clone https://github.com/byrgazov/diesel
Once you have a clone, cd to the diesel directory and install it.:
$ virtualenv --python=python3 --no-setuptools .venv $ .venv/bin/pip install -U pip setuptools $ .venv/bin/pip install -U zc.buildout $ .venv/bin/buildout $ bin/dnosetests $ bin/dconsole dummy # [terminal 1] $ bin/dconsole <pid> # [terminal 2] $ bin/python examples/santa.py $ bin/python examples/udp_echo.py server # [terminal 1] $ bin/python examples/udp_echo.py client # [terminal 2] $ bin/python examples/http.py # ... # profit