Python client for MogileFS

[Matt Croydon]

If you're looking for timeouts, I'd highly suggest Joe Gregorio's httplib2:
http://code.google.com/p/httplib2/

--Matt

Jonathan Share wrote:
> Justin Azoff wrote:
>> Jonathan Share wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> In the archives I found the link to this
>>>
>>> http://www.albany.edu/~ja6447/mogilefs.py
>>>
>>> Just a couple of points of feedback for anyone searching.
>>>
>>> 1) Would it be possible to have the dependency of pycurl listed at the
>>> top of the file (no big deal really)
>>
>> Using pycurl might even be overkill... may be worthwhile to benchmark
>> pycurl vs. urllib and see if it is even faster.
>>
> 
> Actually doing this could be worthwhile for other reasons.
> 
> I just tried installing on a debian etch system (current stable) and it
> seems that libcurl, upon which pycurl depends, is currently at an
> unsupported version and not present in backports either :-(
> 
> Just looking into the code I can see that it appears the reasoning for
> using pycurl is for easy access to setting the timeouts, a quick google
> search reveals that this is definitely not trivial in the context of
> urllib(2) so I'm going to stick with pycurl for the short term. If, by
> some miracle, I have some spare time at the end of my current project
> I'll spend some more time looking into the other options available.
> 
>>> 2) When importing in Python 2.5 I get the following error
>>>
>>> mogilefs.py:83: DeprecationWarning: The sre module is deprecated, please
>>> import re.
>>
>> Fixed :-)
> 
> Thanks
> 
>>
>>> Off to go and see if it actually works now, you'll hear from me if there
>>> are any problems ;-)
>>>
>>> Jon
>>
>> It should work!  Let me know if it doesn't :)
>> It could definitely use some cleanups, and I believe there are a ton of
>> methods that need to be added to the Admin class.
>>
> 
> Seems to work fine on my workstation although current use-cases are very
> simple, hadn't thought of admin functions, will look into integrating
> those for a later iteration.
> 
> /me off to go building libcurl from source
> 
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