[Chicago] vinlib package available

Steve K lister-chipy at guide.chi.il.us
Fri Sep 24 17:27:23 CEST 2010


I may be mistaken, but I believe what Carl is referring to is the ODB-II
port and the project is pyODB (http://www.obdtester.com/pyobd). 

- Steve

On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 10:11:30AM -0500, Carl Karsten wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 10:03 AM, Lukasz Szybalski <szybalski at gmail.com> wrote:
> > http://pypi.python.org/pypi/vinlib/
> >
> >
> > vinlib is a Vehicle Identification Number Package that allows you to
> > verify and decode parts of the vin number.
> >
> > Currently it can:
> > 1) vinlib.check_vin will return whether the entered vin number is
> > authentic/correct.
> > 2) decode function coming soon. If anybody has a list of vin to make
> > or vin to model references please let me know.
> 
> I bet a good source is the guy that makes the python interface to
> the... um.. the thing that plugs into the diagnostic plug usually
> located under the steering column.
> 
> and I bet he would want to know about what you are doing.
> 
> -- 
> Carl K
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