Do you want to use the python language to build applications that interact with your users / customers using voice, text messaging (SMS), instant messaging (IM) or Twitter?

If so, we now have a python module available to help you create those apps on our Tropo platform using the Tropo Web API.  The module is available for download here:

http://github.com/tropo/tropo-webapi-python

You can download it directly from the website or use the git version control system to clone a copy to your local system.

There are a couple of samples provided, one that works with Google AppEngine and one that works with the “itty-bitty python web framework” :

http://github.com/tropo/tropo-webapi-python/tree/master/samples/

We need to get some more samples in there, quite frankly, and will be doing that in the time ahead, so please do check back occasionally.  For more info on what you can do with the Tropo Web API in general, please read the Tropo Web API Guide.

The module is still in development, too, so you may see some changes to it over time as we work on continuing to improve it and make it better.  If you are git-savvy, the best way to stay up-to-date would be to clone a copy and then issue a “git pull origin master” from time-to-time to be sure you have the latest and greatest code.

This python module is freely available as open source, and I and others will be writing more about what you can do with it in the weeks ahead.  If you would like to contribute samples, find bugs or have other issues, please either contact me on Github or via email.

If python’s not your language of choice, we also do have Tropo Web API libraries for Ruby, PHP and C#. Check them all out on http://github.com/tropo/

Enjoy… and please do drop us a line if you build some cool apps with this library!

P.S. And yes, this python library has been updated to line up with our new library naming guidelines, so there are no expected changes to the module name any time soon. That’s been done.

P.P.S. I should note that Ted Gilchrist was the primary author of this python library for Tropo, with additional contributions from Saúl Ibarra Corretgé and myself.