Is anyone using Python for GS1 XML and AS2 EDI?

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I'm helping some manufacturing companies link up their EDI systems using the GS1 XML specs (this is an international spec for companies to pass things like purchase-orders, invoices, barcodes etc. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GS1).

There are lots of Big Iron solutions, and lots of Java and C# solutions, and even a couple in PHP. But I haven't found any projects in Python.

Have you tried this, and can you offer any war stories?

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 15 '11 at 10:56

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I worked with GS1 XML specs. Nothing special, just very baroque. for edi I use bots (http://bots.sourceforge.net) for AS2 (bots does not do AS2) http://opensource.mendelson-e-c.com/

answered Sep 15 '11 at 10:56

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My e-mail alert was not fast enough... I wanted to recommend you/bots to Jagu ;-) – Babelabout Sep 15 '11 at 11:12
Thanks that looks like a really interesting gateway. – Jagu Sep 16 '11 at 08:16
I went with your suggestion, and it worked out very well: http://stackoverflow.com/a/8335522/797945 – Jagu Dec 01 '11 at 01:34

score 5 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 01 '11 at 01:33

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Followup.

I made the original post back in September. It's now December and the system is complete.

In the end I did use the BOTS EDI open source project (http://bots.sourceforge.net). This is a Python platform for doing electronic data interchange translations and comms.

This turned out to be an excellent option. The development was smooth and it saved an enormous amount of work that I was expecting. I highly recommend it.

answered Dec 01 '11 at 01:33

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Any possiblility you have a copy of the wiki or some kind of documentation? All documentation seems to have disappeared...https://code.google.com/archive/p/bots/wikis/StartIntroduction.wiki – Chris - Haddox Technologies Feb 03 '16 at 19:08
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No, sorry. That's a real worry if the project is going away. It has been a very good platform for us. – Jagu Feb 04 '16 at 23:17
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They seem to be working on it. The project itself is now on Github: github.com/eppye-bots/bots. The documentation is available at http://botsdocs.readthedocs.org/en/latest/. – Thijs van Dien Mar 20 '16 at 00:49
That link doesn't seem to be working for me. For a split second the page loads and you can see the contents, but after that a 404 error appears and doesn't let me do anything. – Dan May 28 '20 at 06:39
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Sourceforge project has died, but there's some activity over at https://github.com/bots-edi/bots – Jagu Jun 29 '20 at 13:36

Is anyone using Python for GS1 XML and AS2 EDI?

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