Look at the examples and docs on the oauthlib library. It's like Java. SkeletonValidator(RequestValidator) ??? This is totally the opposite of pragmatism, and one of the main reasons I've moved away from Python and build most things in Ruby now.
After doing Django for 5 years, the nail in the coffin was when I wanted to simply access a users me object from their facebook graph timeline. Riddle me that. In ruby-pragmatism land it's a gem and a line or two of code away, thanks to the awesome Koala library.
Kenneth Reitz's recent requests library is the first refreshing and pragmatic python tool I have seen in a long time. This oauth library shares the same friendly and straightforward interface too. The docs and examples are directly clear and directly in front of you. It's simple and pragmatic.
The stars on the repo's speak for themselves ... rauth has over 700 stars, whereas oauthlib has considerably less than half of that. I'm not trying to tell you that you suck, because I admire your work quite a lot, but I think these days developers want simple and pragmatic.
In one breath, you're complaining about a library's complexity in abstracting away an underlying mess, and in the next, you're praising a library that is complex and abstracts away some underlying mess.
It's not about stars. It's about the right architectural choice. Believe me when I say that we thought long and hard about the structure of OAuthLib, and it looks nothing at all like Java. When we started out, we were reacting to the mess that is/was python-oauth[2] and its class-based ridiculous. Like all real-world projects, after spending time with the spec and refactoring the parts which were common to the various signing flows, you end up with some real-world ugly.
This entire complaint would go away with a thin 'for humans' wrapper on top. If you look inside requests and its dependencies you will see some complexities too, they are just hidden from you. But this does not mean that it makes sense to write the low-level stuff in a way that prevents reuse - though that reusability might look abstract - this is the reason we are swimming in OAuth implementations.
After doing Django for 5 years, the nail in the coffin was when I wanted to simply access a users me object from their facebook graph timeline. Riddle me that. In ruby-pragmatism land it's a gem and a line or two of code away, thanks to the awesome Koala library.
Kenneth Reitz's recent requests library is the first refreshing and pragmatic python tool I have seen in a long time. This oauth library shares the same friendly and straightforward interface too. The docs and examples are directly clear and directly in front of you. It's simple and pragmatic.
The stars on the repo's speak for themselves ... rauth has over 700 stars, whereas oauthlib has considerably less than half of that. I'm not trying to tell you that you suck, because I admire your work quite a lot, but I think these days developers want simple and pragmatic.