[Handle-info] Python library for interaction with Handle Servers

[Tobias Weigel <weigel@dkrz.de>]

Dear all,

within the EU project EUDAT, we have developed a generic Python library 
for interaction with Handle System servers (requiring v8.1). We think 
this can be useful to anyone from the larger Handle System user 
community who aims to develop Python-based tools or services against the 
Handle System. The source code is freely available from GitHub [1] under 
an Apache 2 license; the documentation is currently hosted as GitHub 
pages [2].

The features of the library include:
- Interaction with the HS REST API for create, read, update and delete 
actions of Handles
- Management of 10320/loc entries
- Multiple authentication options, including secret key and 
certificate-based authentication
- Optional support for local Handle server searching using an additional 
Java servlet

For the future, we also plan to upload this to the Python Package Index 
(PyPI) so it can be easily installed via pip.

Best, Tobias

[1] https://github.com/EUDAT-B2SAFE/B2HANDLE
[2] http://eudat-b2safe.github.io/B2HANDLE/

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Tobias Weigel
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