[paho-dev] Python bindings for the MQTT C client

[Ian Craggs <icraggs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello all,

I am planning to add Python bindings for the MQTT C client libraries.  
Dave Locke asked me how this would compare to a pure Python client.  
Adding the Python bindings is a small amount of work compared to writing 
the C client in the first place, so my feeling is why wouldn't you?  
Different approaches may well have different applications.

The bindings up to now have been written primarily to make testing of 
the C client easy, so they mirror the structure of the C API quite 
closely.  To make them more "Pythonic", I would refactor them so that 
now we have:

import mqttv3

client = mqttv3.create(...)

mqttv3.connect(client, ...)

but then we would have:

import mqttv3

client = mqttv3.create(...)

client.connect(...)

Any thoughts welcome.

Ian