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SMS tutorial

Features

python-messaging contains in :mod:`messaging.sms` a full featured :term:`SMS` encoder/decoder that should fulfill your needs. Some of its features:

  • 7bit/8bit/16bit encoding/decoding: Decode messages from your Chinese friends, decode a :term:`WAP` PUSH notification or encode a UCS2 message with a Haiku for your Japanese relatives.
  • Encode/decode concatenated SMS
  • Set SMS validity: (relative, absolute)
  • Set SMS class: (0-3)
  • Encode/decode read reports
  • Decode alphanumeric senders
  • Pythonic API: We have strived to design an API that will make feel Pythonistas right at home!

Encoding

Single part vs Multipart

How to encode a single part SMS ready to be sent:

from messaging.sms import SmsSubmit

sms = SmsSubmit("+44123231231", "hey how's it going?")
pdu = sms.to_pdu()[0]

print pdu.length, pdu.pdu

How to encode a concatenated SMS ready to be sent:

from messaging.sms import SmsSubmit

sms = SmsSubmit("+44123231231", "hey " * 50)
for pdu in sms.to_pdu():
    print pdu.length, pdu.pdu

Setting class

Setting the SMS class (0-3) is a no brainer:

from messaging.sms import SmsSubmit

sms = SmsSubmit("+44123231231", "hey how's it going?")
sms.class = 0
pdu = sms.to_pdu()[0]

print pdu.length, pdu.pdu

Setting validity

Validity can be either absolute, or relative. In order to provide a pythonic API, we are using :class:`datetime.datetime` and :class:`datetime.timedelta` objects respectively.

Setting absolute validity:

from datetime import datetime
from messaging.sms import SmsSubmit

sms = SmsSubmit("+44123231231", "this SMS will auto-destroy in 4 months)
sms.validity = datetime(2010, 12, 31, 23, 59, 59)
pdu = sms.to_pdu()[0]

print pdu.length, pdu.pdu

Setting relative validity:

from datetime import timedelta
from messaging.sms import SmsSubmit

sms = SmsSubmit("+44123231231", "this SMS will auto-destroy in 5 hours")
sms.validity = timedelta(hours=5)
pdu = sms.to_pdu()[0]

print pdu.length, pdu.pdu

Decoding

term:PDU decoding is really simple with :class:`~messaging.sms.SmsDeliver`:

from messaging.sms import SmsDeliver

pdu = "0791447758100650040C914497726247010000909010711423400A2050EC468B81C4733A"
sms = SmsDeliver(pdu)

print sms.data
# {'csca': '+447785016005', 'type': None,
#  'date': datetime.datetime(2009, 9, 1, 16, 41, 32),
#  'text': u'  1741 bst', 'fmt': 0, 'pid': 0,
#  'dcs': 0, 'number': '+447927267410'}

Apart from the pdu, the :py:meth:`messaging.sms.SmsDeliver.__init__` accepts a second parameter (strict, which defaults to True). If False, it will decode incomplete (odd size) PDUs.

Sending

This is how you would send a SMS with a modem or a 3G device on Linux, the following code assumes that the device is already authenticated and registered:

import serial

from messaging.sms import SmsSubmit

def send_text(number, text, path='/dev/ttyUSB0'):
    # encode the SMS
    # note how I get the first returned element, this does
    # not deal with concatenated SMS.
    pdu = SmsSubmit(number, text).to_pdu()[0]
    # open the modem port (assumes Linux)
    ser = serial.Serial(path, timeout=1)
    # write the PDU length and wait 1 second till the
    # prompt appears (a more robust implementation
    # would wait till the prompt appeared)
    ser.write('AT+CMGS=%d\r' % pdu.length)
    print ser.readlines()
    # write the PDU and send a Ctrl+z escape
    ser.write('%s\x1a' % pdu.pdu)
    ser.close()

send_text('655234567', 'hey how are you?')