SAP R/3 and Python?
Christopher Browne
cbbrowne at news.hex.net
Fri Jun 23 22:03:37 EDT 2000
Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw a time when M.-A. Lemburg would say:
>"Wegener, Joerg" wrote:
>>
>> I think the best way to access R/3 is via a protocol called RFC (Remote
>> Function Call) or via BAPIs (Business APIs). IIRC there is something called
>> RFC-SDK which allows to write or generate code (I'm not sure here) which
>> gives access to RFCs via DDE/OLE. Use this in combination with WIN32-Python.
>> The downside is that you need much more knowledge about R/3 functions, but
>> this is the best and most reliable way.
>>
>> Hope this helps
>
>Yes... at least it points into a direction which looks like a possible
>solution.
>
>Could it be that SAP (or a partner) already has such a Python
>interface available ? I wouldn't want to reinvent the wheel
>here and I assume this to be a highly non-trivial and time
>consuming task.
I'd suggest taking a look at:
<http://www.mcs.net/~garth/SAP/>
There are RFC interfaces both for TCL and for Python; it ought not to
be _overly_ nasty to adapt those to Python.
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