Pyst consists of a set of interfaces and libraries to allow programming of Asterisk from python. The library currently supports AGI, AMI, and the parsing of Asterisk configuration files. The library also includes debugging facilities for AGI.

Download from Sourceforge project page.

Installation is the standard python install:

tar xvf pyst.tar.gz
cd pyst
python setup.py install --prefix=/usr/local

Released version 0.3: Minor feature enhancements

New maintainer Ralf Schlatterbeck, this is my first release, please report any problems via the Sourceforge Bug-Tracker or email me directly. Thanks to Karl Putland for writing the original package. Thanks to Matthew Nicholson for maintaining the package for some years and for handing over maintenance when he was no longer interested. The parsing of answers from asterisk was completely rewritten. This should fix problems people were having with commands returning embedded '/' or empty lines. Some new manager commands added.

* Add playdtmf manager command
* add sippeers and sipshowpeer manager commands
* rewritten manager communication
* should no longer choke on '/' in answers returned from a manager command (fixes SF Bug 2947866)
* should now correctly parse multi-line output with embedded empty lines, e.g. mgr.command('dialplan show')
* Bug-fix for list manipulation in event_dispatch, thanks to Jan Mueller, see mailinglist comment from 2008-04-18
* Merge unreleased changes from repository of Matthew Nicholson in particular a typo in agi.py for set_autohangup, and change of get_header methods (see Upgrading instructions). The fixed manager.command support is already in (with a different solution). The unreleased changes are also on the 0.2 branch in the subversion repository in case somebody is interested.