One method you can use is to connect to an SMS API provider from your web application, which will enable you to send SMS via an internet connection, typically using a protocol like HTTP; You can try Nexmo SMS API, it supports HTTP REST and SMPP and we have documentation published in our website with information and examples on how to connect and send, which for a programmer in any language can be pretty simple.
http://nexmo.com/documentation/libs/index.html Examples for Python are still to come to the documentation page, however, you can try github and find code to send sms for python in github. e.g. https://github.com/marcuz/pynexmo With Nexmo, you can send to 200 countries, and it has Long Numbers available in a few countries for inbound traffic.You need to have a CallBack URL for inbound to which Nexmo sends a request for each incoming message to your long number. It is a pay as you go service, so you decide how much you need to buy to send SMS (pricing per country/operator is on the website). For inbound, you pay per long number monthly (not per message). The end user does not pay for receiving. http://nexmo.com Hope this helps. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
