multi-protocol url-based IO -- pure python kioslave-like module?

[Rob McMullen]

Wheel reinvention preemption question: is there an existing pure-
python library with functionality similar to KDE's kio/kioslave
implementation? A multi-protocol, extensible library based on URLs
that abstracts directory listing and file read/write? I'm looking to
use it in client code, not server, so it doesn't have to be
asynchronous like kio; ideally it would be small and only depend on
the standard python library.

Here's what I'm aware of:

* urllib2 doesn't handle opening URLs for writing, meaning that it's
incapable of supporting WebDAV or e.g. the fish:// protocol

* twisted is built to handle multiple protocols, but is an extremely
large package aiming to simplify low-level server and client code

* Boa Contstructor has something called Explorers which support
multiple protocols, but seems pretty tied to its gui implementation

* PyKDE can interface with the KDE shared libraries, but obviously
that's not pure python. (Or standalone or small.

* the somewhat related PEP-268 for WebDAV support, but that was
withdrawn.

My google-fu doesn't show much else. Any pointers would be
appreciated!

Thanks,

Rob

 

[Paul Boddie]

Wheel reinvention preemption question: is there an existing pure-
python library with functionality similar to KDE's kio/kioslave
implementation? A multi-protocol, extensible library based on URLs
that abstracts directory listing and file read/write? I'm looking to
use it in client code, not server, so it doesn't have to be
asynchronous like kio; ideally it would be small and only depend on
the standard python library.

Something like itools.vfs, perhaps?

http://www.ikaaro.org/itools
http://download.ikaaro.org/doc/itools/Chapter--VFS.html

Paul

 

[Rob McMullen]

Something like itools.vfs, perhaps?

http://www.ikaaro.org/itools
http://download.ikaaro.org/doc/itools/Chapter--VFS.html

Thanks for the pointer -- I hadn't run across itools before. It also
gave me some new ideas for google search words and found

http://wiki.python.org/moin/CodingProjectIdeas/FileSystemVirtualization

with a few more ideas.

Thanks for the help.

Rob