On Jun 24, 12:16 pm, Alec Taylor <alec.tayl...@gmail.com> wrote: > This is the most active one, forked from the official facebook one > (when they used to maintain it > themselves):https://github.com/pythonforfacebook/facebook-sdk > > > > > > > > On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 1:35 AM, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 1:16 AM, Jerry Rocteur <jerry.roct...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > >> Hi, > > >> I posted this mail on Friday and received no replies.. > > >> I'm curious.. > > >> Is it because > > >> 1) Python is not the language to use for Facebook, use Javascript or XXX > >> ?? instead ? Please tell. > >> 2) I've missed the point and this is very well documented so RTFM (I > >> couldn't find it) > >> 3) You guys don't use Facebook, you have a life .. > > > I personally don't use Facebook, but I don't have much of a life > > either..... But I've never heard of a specific Python-Facebook module, > > until just now when I googled it and found a couple of things. > > > Two points: > > > 1) Python's pretty good at networking. If all else fails, you can > > always just implement whatever Facebook's API is (the Google snippets > > suggest it's REST, ie all HTTP, which Python does admirably), and go > > from there. > > > 2) An active Python-Facebook module will have active developers who > > probably know far more about how to use their module than random > > people like me who happen to read all of python-list :) There may well > > be such people on this list, but since you've received no replies, > > it's possible there aren't. (It's also possible that they don't > > monitor this list on weekends, though. You never know.) > > > 3) What do Facebook think of you downloading all their content and > > viewing it without their ads? Not that I particularly care, but it may > > be something to consider, since you're effectively going to get > > everything that Facebook offers you (ie posts/pics/etc) without > > everything that Facebook steals from you and sells (page views, ad > > impressions, etc). > > > (Among our points are such diverse elements as... wrong Pythons, but > > whatever.) > > > There's no official Python-Facebook module (afaik!!), but a quick web > > search for 'python facebook' should get you to the couple that I saw, > > and possibly others. The next question is, do you trust any of them... > > Good luck with that one! :) > > > Chris Angelico > > -- > >http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
FWOW. I tried for about a week every Python Facebook module out there I could find (including that one), with Python 2.5 or 2.7, and for whatever reason was unsuccessful in uploading a photo and quit trying. Frustrating. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
