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Starting from pysmb version 1.0.4, application developers can utilize smb:// URLs with pysmb and urllib2 python package. One benefit from this is that if your existing application already supports downloads via other protocols like http or ftp, you can “upgrade” your application to support downloads from Windows shared folders or from Samba servers by making small modifications to your existing code.

pysmb tries to follow the smb URL scheme proposed in the IETF draft which is not much different from other standard URL schemes like http and ftp. In short, your smb URL should follow this format – smb://[<user>:<password>@]<host>[:<port>][/<share>/<path>/<filename>]

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About 10 years ago, I have released the first version of pysmb. Since then, Microsoft Windows has made significant changes to the NTLM authentication protocol which causes pysmb to become incompatible with Windows Vista and Windows 7 machines.

Now, with the release of pysmb 1.0.0, you can write Python applications to transfer files on shared folders on Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7, as well as on Unix machines running Samba. pysmb 1.0.0 remains faithful to its clause that it will remain a pure Python SMB/CIFS module without any need for binary compilation. For this to be possible, it has utilized other pure Python modules such as pyDES, MD4 and pyasn1.

In addition to its new compatibilities with the recent Windows OS, pysmb has also been rewritten to support other frameworks. At the moment, a Twisted NetBIOS and SMB/CIFS protocol implementation has been included with pysmb 1.0.0 sources. Please refer to the documentation in the sources for more details.

For more details on pysmb 1.0.0, please go to the pysmb project page to download it, or you can also run: “easy_install pysmb” to install it on your machine.

I have just released Python Mutant Tester (PyMuTester) version 0.1.0 to the public. More details can be found at the Python Mutant Tester project page.

PyMuTester is a testing tool to facilitate mutant testing in Python applications. By making small (and syntactically correct) modifications to the application’s source code and re-run the unit tests over these mutated source code, we can uncover missed checks and loopholes in the test cases.

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Hi, I have released a patch to the CLIPS (and also pyclips) expert system which allows CLIPS users to be able to send SQL queries to a PostgreSQL database from the CLIPS environment.

More information can be obtained at the PostgreSQL Extensions for CLIPS Expert System project page.

After laying this library to waste for 6 years, I have finally resurrected pysmb and fixed a crucial issue that has been plaguing pysmb for the past few years.

pysmb 0.4.5 will resolve the problem of retrieving large number of file information from remote SMB server. Previous versions will experience crashes in such situations as the remote SMB server is not able to return all the file information in a single request/response call. pysmb will “resume” the retrieval when necessary.

For more information, please visit: http://miketeo.net/wp/index.php/projects/pysmb