Good to know. i've always thought that python would make an excellent solution for transportation and logistics software. I used to maintain a nasty vb6 solution, and a lot of the brick walls could have been overcome by utilizing the dynamic nature of python.
But, there is not enough hours in the day. And writing a solution puts you in an odd relationship with your partners(UPS/FexEx etc...). On one hand you are helping them indirectly sell their services, On the other, you are sort of competing with them, so, those companies have plenty of reason to screw with you by changing the specs, lot's of hoops to jump through to contiuously be certified. I guess I care anyway because the problem domain is so interesting to me. Maybe it's because I'm running a fever. :) Thanks for the info. On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 09:51:35 -0500, Gabriel Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Tom Willis wrote: > > >Are the modules just accessing the published apis for their webservices? > > > >I'm just wondering because I used to work for a logistics mgmt > >company that paid money to be a strategic partner with > >FedEx/UPS/Airborn etc so that they could information on how to return > >rates/print labels/generate edi's/calculate arrival times etc. > > > >I'd get a good laugh out of it suddenly being freely available now. > > > Yes, they use the free API's that have always been freely available. > They're just *Impossible* to find on either of UPS's OR FedEx's > websites. It took me no less than an hour and likely more just to find > the documentation pages on each site. As for putting them up on the web, > I should be able to get them up by the end of the week. > > Gabriel. > -- Thomas G. Willis http://paperbackmusic.net -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
