[galvanash]

Anyone done anything like this? Ive found a few python libraries for doing it, but I am hesitant to go down that path because of all the platform differences between Samba, XP, Vista, and Windows 7 - I have my doubts that the libraries I have found will reliably work across all platforms well enough to not cause users grief...

My needs are very very simple - download a file from a server with minimal fuss... I currently use urllib to do the fetches over http which works great - but requires the user to setup an http server. I would like to add an option to my plugin to operate in smb mode and just have it grab a file using a unc path.

XBMC has great builtin support for smb - but there doesn't appear to be a way to leverage it from python (or at least I don't see a way to). Is there something I'm missing, or is the library route the way to go?

Any suggestions welcome.

[ppic]

use shutil lib

[galvanash]

use shutil lib

Don't I have to mount the share to do that? I'm trying to do this cross platform, so mount is not an option... Or am I missing something

[ppic]

no need to mount, just past your share "smb://tatata/totot/file.jpg" it will be fine.
just need to copy, not download

[galvanash]

no need to mount, just past your share "smb://tatata/totot/file.jpg" it will be fine.
just need to copy, not download

Really? When did that start working... Cool.

[topfs2]

Uhm, we add our vfs to python scripts, you should be able to just use normal file operations in python and get smb support, heck even read zip over samba and all that stuff aswell.

[jmarshall]

Actually, you probably won't be able to do that, as not everything is wrapped. You might get lucky or you might not, depending on platform.

It would be better if we added a vfs module for python.

Cheers,
Jonathan