On 31 Aug, 15:36, Gerardo Herzig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Neil Hodgson wrote: > > This is likely to cost some money similar to sending an SMS from a > >'phone.
[...] > Well, im not triyng to send a SMS `FROM' a cellphone, im trying to send > a SMS `TO' a cellphone. Yes, but he did write "similar to", meaning that regardless of how the message is prepared, sending it may cost someone some money - the typical "financial effect" when you send a message from an actual telephone. > Here (in Argentina) are several sites who lets you send a sms for free. You > also can receive > SMS responses via this pagehttp://sms.personal.com.ar/Mensajes/msn.htm I guess you're thinking about a library like SMSLib: http://smslib.org/ This seems to combine the two most obvious ways of sending such messages: communicate with a device already located on the GSM network; communicate with a gateway which relays messages to the GSM network. > While my tries using this page via urllib failed, i dont want to depend > on an external page anyway. The python class you send to me looks like > a pay site (if not, i dont see why the tokenpay() and getbalance() > methods :) > > I was also avaiable to send a sms in the form of an plain email > [EMAIL PROTECTED], but it not seems to work > this way no longer. Again, i dont want to do it that way anyway. Yes, both of the above (use of a Web site or an e-mail relay) rely on existing services. If you don't want to do that, you'll need to connect directly to your own GSM-capable device, I imagine. > Thats why im looking for a python implementation of that funcionality. I don't know how well SMSLib works with Jython or whether you could take a PyLucene-like approach and wrap it for CPython using SWIG or some other wrapper technology in conjunction with gcj, but that's one approach. Another is to look into libraries which communicate with mobile devices: I extended one called t616hack [1] and made it almost capable of telling my T610 telephone to send messages, but another candidate would be python-gammu [2]. A while back someone stumbled across a GSM hardware module which has embedded Python as a feature [3], but I imagine that a lot of GSM-capable hardware uses AT-like commands to support such activities. Of course, I've probably covered an area that you're not directly interested in, but someone has to provide a link to the GSM network, either in the network infrastructure or by using some kind of GSM device. If you're not a GSM network operator then it's likely that you're either going to need to deal with a network operator, perhaps indirectly, or you'll need to join the GSM network with a suitable device in the "normal" way. Paul [1] http://www.python.org/pypi/t616hack [2] http://cihar.com/gammu/python/ [3] http://www.telit.co.it/product.asp?productId=113 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
