chirp
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A minimal Twitter clone to demonstrate Tornado and MongoDB
A trivial Twitter clone. A set of example apps demonstrating asynchronous Python web frameworks with MongoDB.
Installation
git clone git://github.com/ajdavis/chirp.git cd chirp pip install -I -r requirements.txt
Examples
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sync/chirp_sync.py
: Use PyMongo, the standard blocking driver, with Tornado. See the tragic consequences of mixing a blocking driver with a non-blocking web framework. -
motor/chirp_motor.py
: Use Motor, my non-blocking driver for MongoDB and Tornado. -
gevent/chirp_gevent.py
: Just for completeness, use PyMongo with Gevent.