For Twisted, there's https://github.com/hybridlogic/txMySQL https://github.com/hybridlogic/txMySQL, or the standard adbapi, which runs queries in a thread pool.

For Twisted, there's https://github.com/hybridlogic/txMySQL https://github.com/hybridlogic/txMySQL, or the standard adbapi, which runs queries in a thread pool. Also, some Twisted documentation was improved after Tornado was released; there's now "Twisted.Web in 60 seconds": http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/11.0.0/web/howto/web-in-60/index.html http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/11.0.0/web/howto/web-in-6...