# Gavin Andresen
# 2011-10-07 23:19:53
# https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=46485.msg562452#msg562452

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Mmmm.... Twisted.... @p{par}

I started defining a BitcoinProtocol class derived from twisted.internet.protocol.Protocol for my cross-implementation at-the-network-level testing project.  I plan on using Twisted and Trial (the Twisted unit testing framework) to feed canned block-chains to "empty" nodes and make sure they Do The Right Thing (reject blocks that violate the blockchain rules or contain invalid transactions, accept blocks that contain weird-but-valid transactions, etc). @p{brk}
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Anyway, the BitcoinProtocol class might be a good place to start for anybody who wants to do some python-based bitcoin network programming.  Good example to demonstrate is a little dump-blocks tool I wrote to spit out a blockchain in JSON format: @p{brk}
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(I'm a Twisted newbie, so improvements, suggestions, etc are very much appreciated)