On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Elf Scripter<lfscrip...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thank you for correcting my mistake. > I checked google but nothing close. did you have any idea? > > On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 5:42 PM, Simon Forman <sajmik...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 12:18 PM, Elf Scripter<lfscrip...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > Hello, >> > Has anyone created an Instance Messenger in Python before, i mean a >> > simple >> > or Complex GUI based instance messenger? >> > I thought about something like, the client also act as server, has it`s >> > own >> > listening port, but how can i handle uer auth? and adding visual effects >> > to >> > it. >> > Please i am not trying to design another Yahoo IM/Skype but just for >> > learning and also want to create real live application using the socket >> > module. >> >> Instant, not Instance, Did you check google? > >
I wouldn't try writing an IM or IRC client and/or server directly on the socket module, unless you really really wanted the learning experience. You might look at the "words" sub-project of the Twisted project [1] (although Twisted code has a significant learning curve itself, they do almost all of the network related heavy lifting for you.) There's also apparently a python binding to something called libpurple which seems to be a library used/provided by the "purple" multi-protocol IM/IRC client (used to be called GAIM). [2] HTH, ~Simon [1] http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/wiki/TwistedWords [2] http://briglia.net/wiki/tiki-index.php?page=Python-purple+Howto -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
