From: JamesL at Lugoj.Com (James Logajan)
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 20:57:52 -0700
Subject: SNMPy update
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Jeremy Hylton wrote:
> 
> I'll second your sentiment!  I did some work on an X.509 library
> written entirely in Python.  Like you friend's SNMP code, it will
> probably never be released; I don't have time to finish it nor did I
> expect that I'd want to release it given the export control hassles.
> However, it seemed clear to me that an ASN.1 compiler could be written
> to generate the encode/decode routines.  If someone is interested in
> that, I've got some design notes and rough code on how to do the
> encode/decode and on how to build a backend for SNACC.  (A free-ish
> ASN.1 compiler; the only one?)
> 
> Jeremy

I had planned to write an SNMP MIB compiler in Python (actually also an
ASN.1(88) and ASN.1(9?) compiler). Worked out how to do macros, but I just
joined a startup, so I haven't found time to make any progress. The MIB
compiler would have output Python modules.

I have an outstanding contract to supply said compiler, but they haven't
complained about it being delivered (of course, I only get paid for
deliverables <wink>).