Re: [coldsync-hackers] Python conduits

[Wim Heirman <wim dot heirman at elis.ugent.be>]

I've put the code I have so far at 
http://www.elis.ugent.be/~wheirman/python-coldsync.tgz
Working so far are the interface to ColdSync itself for fetch, dump and 
install conduits (nothing SPC-related) -- which is actually not very 
much since it just needs to parse the arguments from stdin.
The second part is in reading/writing .pdb files. I've started with 
http://linux.piter-press.ru/peepdb/ for the basic pdb format, now I'm 
porting the Perl code from ColdSync's p5-Palm package to Python for the 
different record formats. I already ported the Address format module, 
and reverse-engineerd the Contacts and Notepad formats and wrote a 
module for them too. Binding Python into the existing Perl API might 
involve less code, but I'm not sure that's possible.
Also in the .tgz file are a few conduits, they don't do anything 
interesting but you can see how the interface should be used. You can 
use them like the Perl ones, either from .coldsyncrc or on the 
commandline with something like './mail-notes.py run dump InputDB=...'.

The 'plan' is to be able to do everything in Python that's now possible 
in Perl, but don't hold your breath off course. I don't know if I'll 
include SPC support, but I'd like to add the formats for the new PIM 
applications from the Tungsten T3 and E models ('Contacts' is already 
done as I said).

Wim.

Tim Meals wrote:
> I'd love to see a Python-based ColdSync.  Or at the very least Python
> bindings into the Perl API.  I've thought about building one once or
> twice, but never made it much past the "thinking" stage.  What are your
> plans on implementing Python conduits?
>
> Tim
>
> On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 05:43, Wim Heirman wrote:
>
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > I wondered if there is still interest in writing conduits with Python. 
> > I've seen it mentioned a few times, but since there has never been a 
> > real follow up I decided to start writing my own set of libraries. Parts 
> > of it (the ColdSync interface and parsing Address/Contacts databases) 
> > are starting to be usefull, so if anyone wants to use/test/co-develop 
> > this further, please let me know!
> >
> > Regards,
> > Wim.
>
> --
>
> Tim Meals
> em:  tim@codeknox.com
>
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