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Warning - no longer developed!

pyfuse3 is no longer actively developed and just receiving community-contributed maintenance to keep it alive for some time.

The pyfuse3 Module

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pyfuse3 is a set of Python 3 bindings for libfuse 3. It provides an asynchronous API compatible with Trio and asyncio_, and enables you to easily write a full-featured Linux filesystem in Python.

pyfuse3 releases can be downloaded from PyPi_. The documentation can be read online__ and is also included in the doc/html directory of the pyfuse3 tarball.

Getting Help

Please report any bugs on the issue tracker. For discussion and questions, please use the general FUSE mailing list. A searchable mailing list archive is kindly provided by Gmane.

Development Status

pyfuse3 is in beta. Bugs are likely.

pyfuse3 uses semantic versioning. This means backwards incompatible changes in the API will be reflected in an increase of the major version number.

Contributing

The pyfuse3 source code is available on GitHub_.

.. __: https://pyfuse3.readthedocs.io/ .. _libfuse 3: http://github.com/libfuse/libfuse .. _FUSE mailing list: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fuse-devel .. _issue tracker: https://github.com/libfuse/pyfuse3/issues .. _mailing list archive: http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.fuse.devel .. _Gmane: http://www.gmane.org/ .. _PyPi: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyfuse3/ .. _GitHub: https://github.com/libfuse/pyfuse3 .. _Trio: https://github.com/python-trio/trio .. _asyncio: https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio.html