PodSixNet | Lightweight multiplayer network library for python games

PodSixNet is a Python library. PodSixNet has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities, it has build file available, it has a Weak Copyleft License and it has low support. You can install using 'pip install PodSixNet' or download it from GitHub, PyPI.

PodSixNet is a lightweight network layer designed to make it easy to write multiplayer games in Python. It uses Python's built in asyncore library and rencode.py (included) to asynchronously serialise network events and arbitrary data structures, and deliver them to your high level classes through simple callback methods. Each class within your game client which wants to receive network events, subclasses the ConnectionListener class and then implements Network_* methods to catch specific user-defined events from the server. You don't have to wait for buffers to fill, or check sockets for waiting data or anything like that, just do connection.Pump() once per game loop and the library will handle everything else for you, passing off events to all classes that are listening. Sending data back to the server is just as easy, using connection.Send(mydata). Likewise on the server side, events are propagated to Network_* method callbacks and data is sent back to clients with the client.Send(mydata) method. The PodSixNet mailing list is good for getting help from other users. For users of the Construct game making environment for Windows, there is a tutorial on doing multiplayer networking with PodSixNet, here. Thanks to Dave Chabo for contributing this tutorial. Here is another tutorial by Julian Meyer.