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papyon is an MSN library purely written in Python. It is the library behind the Telepathy MSN connection manager, telepathy-butterfly. papyon is a fork of the unmaintained pymsn MSN library. The GLib mainloop is used to process the network events in an asynchronous manner.

Get papyon

Papyon releases are here:

Features

Here is a quick features list :

Dependencies

papyon depends on:

Try it

to give papyon a try, run the test.py python code, this will connect to the MSN IM service, and try to fetch the first online contact's display picture:

Report bugs

To report bugs, use the freedesktop.org bugzilla here.

Help out

The things that are still to be done in papyon can be found in the ?TODO page.

Documentation

Troubleshooting

OverflowError: long too big to convert

If you get something like that:

You can contact developers using IRC: #papyon on irc.freenode.net

Mailing lists

There are two mailing lists: