Pants is a lightweight framework for writing asynchronous network applications in Python. It is a simple, efficient and versatile networking solution which makes no assumptions about your use-case, provides no superfluous features and is very good-looking.

Pants is available under the [Apache License, Version 2.0] (http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html)

Pants can be obtained in several ways. You can use [pip] (http://http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pip):

pip install pants

Or setuptools, if that's how you roll:

easy_install pants

Or for the bleeding edge version, you can clone the git repository:

git clone git://github.com/ecdavis/pants

Pants requires Python 2.6+ - Python 3 is not yet supported.

Pants has a small but active community of developers who congregate in the IRC channel #pantsmud on irc.freenode.net.

Here's an absurdly simple example - Hello World:

from pants import Connection, engine, Server

class Hello(Connection):
    def on_connect(self):
        self.write("Hello, World!\r\n")
        self.end()

Server(Hello).listen(4000)
engine.start()

Want an absurdly fast web server? Got you covered:

from pants.contrib.web import Application, HTTPServer
from pants import engine

app = Application()

@app.route('/')
def hello():
    return "Hello, World!"

HTTPServer(app).listen(80)
engine.start()