Hi all,

as some of you may know, with the interop server (PLC4X-111) we are working 
towards providing language bindings for other languages.
And, as I thought I should learn python at some point, I decided to play around 
with the python bindings.
So, in my branch [1] you find the experimental implementation of a python api 
based on the interop server.
There are also some tests which pass and the mt / it where tried against my 
local s7 here and work also.

All you need to run everything is (aside from installing the necessary 
dependencies, which are mainly thrift in version 0.12.0) is written in the 
README.md.

I would be very grateful if someone tries this out and gives feedback.
And we should also talk about some things like.

  *   How are these packages created in python, how to integrate this in our 
build?
  *   How to manage the dependencies (there are many systems in python as I 
learned)
  *   Is this API okay or not python-esque enough?

Thanks all of you for your feedback.
And I would even suggest to prepare an experimental version of this with the 
next release to some python repos to let people play around with it in python. 
This could really be a killer feature to bring others to the community.

Best
Julian

PS.:
DISCLAIMER: That I work with Python does NOT mean that I like python, just to 
be clear!

[1] 
https://github.com/apache/incubator-plc4x/tree/feature/PLC4X-111-interop-server

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