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Bruce M Simpson wrote:
 > Alfred Perlstein wrote:
 > > ...
 > > > I wonder though if anyone has considered implementing the Linux APIs ?
 > > > ...
 > > 
 > > That would be good.  Please ping about it if you don't see it within
 > > a few weeks.
 > 
 > If folk have cycles to look at that, and are interested in following up, 
 > that is excellent news...
 > 
 > Meanwhile, a good set of pointers would be:
 >  http://org.csail.mit.edu/pybluez/

I'm not exactly sure what the purpose of pybluez is.
Python already supports Bluetooth on FreeBSD out of the box.
I'm controlling several devices via Bluetooth (RFCOMM/SPP)
with Python programs on FreeBSD.  It works great.  The very
same programs work on NetBSD, too.  I haven't tried Linux,
though.

Best regards
   Oliver

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