pyzeroconf

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This is a fairly extensive fork of:

Multicast DNS Service Discovery for Python v0.12 by Paul Scott-Murphy.

The package zeroconf contains most of the functional code. The module zeroconf/mdns.py contains a threaded mDNS query/responder sub-class.
The module zeroconf/mcastsocket.py provides low-level multicast socket setup and group membership functions.

The samplecode/ directory contains various sample code.

Browser.py -- sample MDNS service browser
nameprobe -- probe and attempt to reserve a .local MDNS name

To install and play:

.. code-block:: bash

$ virtualenv working 
$ source working/bin/activate 
$ pip install -e git+http://github.com/mcfletch/pyzeroconf.git#egg=PyZeroConf
$ cd working/src/pyzeroconf/samplecode
# Note the trailing '.' character!
$ python nameprobe.py myserver.local.

To build and view the docs on a Linux machine (from the previous):

.. code-block:: bash

$ pip install -I sphinx
$ cd working/src/pyzeroconf/docs
$ make html
$ kde-open _build/html/index.html