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	Jaffa	2010-01-07 , 23:09
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Originally Posted by falkontre

I've found on pymaemo web site some examples about abook, the python module that is used to access address book.

Unfortunately, libabook has no Python bindings on Fremantle at the moment.

There are two alternatives:

python-evolution can give you access to the local Evolution database part of the address book.
Use ctypes to talk directly to libabook.

Both have advantages and disadvantages, and both are used in Hermes, see contacts.py and hermes.py for examples:

https://git.maemo.org/projects/herme...;f=package/src

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