Version 0.5 is available

The source repository has been migrated to bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/reidyd/legume.

Designed primarily for use in cross-platform game development, legume provides non-reliable, reliable and in-order transmission of messages via UDP. The focus behind the features and design of legume:

• Cater for the networking requirements of a multiplayer game with as little boiler-plate code as possible.
• Peaceful co-existence with widely-used game development frameworks and libraries such as pygame and pyglet.
• Don't rely on third-party libraries or platform specific functionality.

An example client with an event handler: ``` import legume from time import sleep

def on_connected(sender, event_args): print 'Connected to server'

client = legume.Client() client.OnConnectRequestAccepted += on_connected client.connect(('host.example.com', 4000))

while True: client.update() sleep(0.001) ```

To define a new message, specify a MessageTypeID to uniquely identity that particular message structure, and a MessageValues dictionary (key=value, value=type): ``` class PlayerJoin(legume.messages.BaseMessage): MessageTypeID = 100 MessageValues = { 'player_name' : 'string 32', # 32 char ansi string 'player_model_id' : 'int', 'start_x' : 'float', 'start_y' : 'float' }

class ChatMessage(legume.messages.BaseMessage): MessageTypeID = 2 MessageValues = { 'from' : 'int', 'message' : 'varstring' } ```

Sending a message: ``` msg = ChatMessage() msg.from.value = 1 msg.message.value = "Hello from the Internet!"

server.send_message_to_all(msg, reliable=True) ```

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