[Python-porting] oauth for Python 3

[Guido van Rossum]

On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 1:16 PM, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:
> On May 24, 2012, at 09:27 AM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>
>>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.
>
> Currently, Launchpad doesn't support OAuth2, so while I agree this would be an
> important feature for a general purpose Python 3 compatible library, it's not
> a requirement for my immediate needs.

Yeah, but your immediate needs don't necessarily fit the standard library. :-)

> Rodney Dawes is the other person who was talking about a Python 3 OAuth
> library, but he is also only needs OAuth1 atm, and his library is not yet
> ready for a Python 3 compatible release.  So I think right now, there is
> basically nothing available.
>
> I'm going to experiment with porting the original oauth library to Python 3.
> If it works out, I'll figure out what to do from there.

I would object to including something in the stdlib that's already
known to be out of date.

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--Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)