[Python-porting] oauth for Python 3

[Guido van Rossum]

The OAuth protocol is already being abandoned in favor of OAuth2.
Whatever package you choose please be sure it uses OAuth2. Google has
an "oauth2client" library but sadly it is horribly over-engineered and
I cannot recommend it.

On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 9:17 AM, Brian Curtin <brian at python.org> wrote:
> On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 11:10 AM, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:
>> One of the packages that I'm constantly bumping up against as I port more code
>> to Python 3 is oauth.  We really need a semi-official (or at least popular
>> <wink>) Python 3 compatible oauth client library.
>>
>> I'm CC'ing Jason DeRose since I've had several conversations with him about
>> this, and I believe he has a package that would fit the bill, although I'm not
>> sure if it's available on PyPI yet.
>>
>> I know I've spoken to at least one other person who knew of, or was working
>> on, a Python 3 compatible oauth library, but I can't remember who that is.
>
> Perhaps it was Rodney Dawes (also at Canonical).
> https://launchpad.net/poauth is on his radar for moving U1 towards 3.x
> support.
>
> (I saw you ask the same thing on Twitter but I figured I'd answer here
> as well for the benefit of the group)
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