If you want something like dropbox, that you can control, stacksync.org provides an open source stack which does something similar.
-- Kevin Gill [email protected] www.movieextras.ie On Wed, Apr 8, 2015, at 02:05 PM, Sean O'Donnell wrote: > I don'nt have much experience with windows ui work, so I won't comment on that > > For S3 take a look at the boto library > > https://boto.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ > > For http take a look at requests > > http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/ > > When it comes to web services development, I like Django, but Flask has a good repuation as well. > > If you search github for python and s3, you will find a lot of code, some of it may be easily adapted to do some of the things you want. > > This for example backs up directories to s3 > > https://github.com/psugand/Python-S3-Backup > > Best of luck > > Sean > > > > On 08/04/15 13:34, Sean McMahon wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> Vicky suggested that I post here. >> >> I have a bit of a background in python, developing functions, regular expressions, algorithms as part of a large python integration codebase but this time around I am aiming to do something more focused on a user. >> >> I want to build an application similar to subversion/ dropbox, etc. that sits on a PC and uploads files to a server such as AWS. >> >> As there are so many development environments, plugins, choices, (pyside versus pyqt), etc. it would be great if I could get help from an experienced programmer/ developer with tool selection and who could give pointers into the required applications to successfully implement a PC file backup application. >> >> The project is as follows: >> >> 1. Develop an application that will have a resident folder where files can be stored. >> 2. Application accessible via system tray >> 3. Application uses http to post information back to server >> 4. Server processes information and inserts into appropriate database. >> 5. Application can be installed on another windows PC and sync with files in server based on >> >> Does anyone have any pointers? Are there any tutorials on offer that might help with the above? >> Does anyone give tutorials (paid or free) that might cater to the above project? >> Are there any meetups where people working on different projects can collaborate? >> >> Regards, Seán >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Python Ireland" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Python Ireland" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Python Ireland" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
