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+Interesting experiments, code snippets and gotchas go in this repository.

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+[Tornado][tornado] app demonstrating asynchronous IO, processing data 
+from remote resource and @tornado.web.asynchronous decorator.
+
+Shows current air temperature for Moscow, Russia.
+
+In no way I encourage using regexes to parse HTML; just imagine there some 
+magic instead.
+
+One of the older demos.
+
+Complexity: ★★☆☆☆
+
+
+Requirements
+------------
+
+Python (2 or 3), [Tornado][tornado], browser.
+
+
+Effects
+-------
+
+- Fetching data doesn't block the entire app, so you can open multiple tabs 
+  and F5 them all at once, the app will send multiple requests in parallel.
+
+- Demonstrates a way to process data in Tornado when using asynchronous IO 
+  via callbacks.
+
+
+[tornado]: http://www.tornadoweb.org/

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+Server and client app demonstrating [Tornado][tornado]'s support of various 
+HTTP methods.
+
+Uses tornado.httpclient.AsyncHTTPClient.
+
+One of the older demos.
+
+Complexity: ★☆☆☆☆
+
+
+Requirements
+------------
+
+Python (2 or 3), [Tornado][tornado], browser. Launch both server.py and 
+client.py.
+
+
+Effects
+-------
+
+- Visiting one of urls defined in client.py (`/get`, `/post`, etc) will 
+  fetch and display response from server.py app.
+
+- Even though server.py answers with some data in case of HEAD request, it 
+  never reaches the client.py.
+
+
+[tornado]: http://www.tornadoweb.org/