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 txaio
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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
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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/