Goal: to make networking in python much easier than it currently is.
- An easier to use TCP socket that can do almost anything the standard socket could
- Consistent error messages between platforms
- Unblock blocking operations on .close()
- Easy multiplexing of streams
- Easy reply/wait for reply
- Optional automatic pickling of messages
- Remote proxy objects. you can send a proxy of a python object to the other side any methods called on the remote proxy will be sent through the connection and called on the local object. Any exceptions thrown in the call will be packaged up and sent back.
There are a couple examples in example.py that should get you going.
pyhnet starts with the plain python sockets (which have a quite varying behavior between platforms) and adds a simple wrapper around it that gives 98% of the functionality of the plain sockets, but is much easier to use and behaves consistently across platforms. Specifically, exceptions raised should always be the same for a given type of error and .close() will always unblock any blocking socket operations.
pyhnet provides several other wrappers than can be stacked together around the lower level byte stream to convert it to a packet stream, replyable packet stream or a pickled replyable packet stream. (the last, called HNetTCPSocket, is the default)
I'm planning on adding support for UDP eventually but haven't gotten around to it yet. If you have a burning need for it let me know; it shouldn't be very hard to add it.
Sorry the documentation is sparse, but the source is relatively readable (and short)