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 :) * the somewhat related PEP-268 for WebDAV support, but that was withdrawn.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 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
