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 txaio

 =====

-| |Version| |Downloads| |Build Status| |Coverage| |Docs|

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 **txaio** is a helper library for writing code that runs unmodified on

 both `Twisted <https://twistedmatrix.com/>`_ and `asyncio <https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio.html>`_ / `Trollius <http://trollius.readthedocs.org/en/latest/index.html>`_.

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     # ...

     txaio.resolve(f0, "value")

     txaio.reject(f1, RuntimeError("it failed"))

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-.. |Version| image:: https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/txaio.svg

-   :target: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/txaio

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-.. |Downloads| image:: https://img.shields.io/pypi/dm/txaio.svg

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-.. |GitHub Stars| image:: https://img.shields.io/github/stars/crossbario/txaio.svg?style=social&label=Star

-   :target: https://github.com/crossbario/txaio

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-.. |Master Branch| image:: https://img.shields.io/badge/branch-master-orange.svg

-   :target: https://travis-ci.org/crossbario/txaio.svg?branch=master

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-.. |Build Status| image:: https://travis-ci.org/crossbario/txaio.svg?branch=master

-   :target: https://travis-ci.org/crossbario/txaio

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-.. |Coverage| image:: https://img.shields.io/codecov/c/github/crossbario/txaio/master.svg

-   :target: https://codecov.io/github/crossbario/txaio

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-.. |Docs| image:: https://img.shields.io/badge/docs-latest-brightgreen.svg?style=flat

-   :target: http://txaio.readthedocs.org/en/latest/