google-talk

What are your experiences with Python Jabber / XMPP client libraries? What do you recommend? A. R. Diederich It depends what license you can use. Some popular libraries are GPL which can cause serious issues if you need to use it for work, especially if you need to keep proprietary extensions. The LGPL libraries are a little less popular, I think, but you have more flexibility with what you can use them for. I'd once looked at using twisted directly for some simple XMPP scripting but the documentation was literally non-existant. Like, I opened a published twisted reference manual and it didn't

The app I'm writing is connecting to a XMPP server, and if the user chooses, I want to give them the option to connect to their google chat account, without having to enter the credentials... To do this, I'd get the permission to use the google account, get the token and authenticate to google talk (XMPP server, using Smack) using the token.. The problem is.. how do I do that? I mean, how do I authenticate to the GTalk server if I know the login and the token? Any ideas, insights? :) If not, maybe anyone knows where could I find someone that knows? (Google contacts, anyone? :P ) You're looking