Python client for lightstreamer

[Colombao]

Hi All, I would like to ask if anyone can provide a basic Python Client example.

I think a very basic and useful example could be a Python code that display push received time/date of the example http://demos.lightstreamer.com/HelloWorld/ .

I already red the Generic Protocol Documentation, I'm able to create the createsession.txt url but it doesn't refresh in my code (push doesn't work).

I searched a lot in web, but I didn't find any that could clarify this (https://github.com/dw/py-lightstreamer actually doesn't works and/or there isn't a documentation).

I have last Python, 3.4

Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks and br.

[Alessandro]

Hi Colombao,

I'm not aware of more recent ready-made examples for Python.

If you start from https://github.com/dw/py-lightstreamer (which was not developed by us) and let us know what is not working, we can support you in fixing any issue with the Lightstreamer protocol.

Thanks,
Alessandro

[Colombao]

Hi Alessandro, many thanks for your quick feedback. Frankly speaking, I don't know how to proceed after "import lightstreamer" (the example included in the library web page, "barebones.py" gives a lot of different error that make me feel that there is something completely wrong from the base).

If anyone of Lighstreamer team could know how to do a client in python, I think a very basic, useful and "end to end" example could be a Python code that display push received time/date of the example http://demos.lightstreamer.com/HelloWorld/ .

Please note that I converted the original lightstreamer library to be compatible with python 3.4 one, using Python 2to3 converter. Maybe something went wrong during conversion. An hypothesis could be that the library is not convertible but compatible only with Python 2.7, but even in this case I don't have an example of how use that library.

Anyone can help me?
Thanks and best regards,
Colombao

[Alessandro]

Colombao,

Thanks for the suggestion. A quick Python client example does make sense, so that we can add it to our demo database: http://demos.lightstreamer.com/

We will try to work on it over the next few weeks and publish it on GitHub. We'll let you know.

Cheers,
Alessandro

[Colombao]

Hi Alessandro,
thanks again for you help. Since Python is more a "mathematical" language than an "Interface" one, in my honest opinion it could be enough to print received data directly into standard output (eg. using "print()" ), without the necessity of developing a real interface, for which there are more appropriate languages. I'll follow this thread!

Thanks again!
Colombao

[Alessandro]

Ok, will use printf() to keep the example as simple as possible.
Thanks

[gianluca.finocchiaro]

We have just released on GitHub a simple Python script that shows a minimal client-side implementation of the Lightstreamer Server Text mode Protocol.
https://github.com/Weswit/Lightstrea...-client-python

[Jim]

Thanks gianluca.finocchiaro. It looks like that demo is featured on the Lightstreamer demo page now.

When I execute the script, I get a syntax error. Any idea why? I'm running Python 2.6.

>python stock_list_demo.py
File "stock_list_demo.py", line 92
k: self._decode(v, curr_item.get(k)) for k, v
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

[Jim]

Dictionary comprehensions are not supported in python 2.6. You need to use 2.7 to run this. You may want to update your requirements to say 2.7 instead of any 2.x version.

[gianluca.finocchiaro]

Hi Jim.

thanks for reporting this issue. I have just the fixed backward compatibility with Python 2.6, now available on GitHub.
Let me know for any further problem.

Regards,
Gianluca