telepot - Python framework for Telegram Bot API

Version 8.2 just came out (July 4, 2016). Handling of callback query is still unsatisfactory. Treat it as a transitional release.

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Recent changes

8.3 (2016-07-17)

• Fixed urllib3==1.9.1 in setup.py

8.2 (2016-07-04)

• Handling of callback query still unsatisfactory, a transitional release
• Changed async version to telepot.aio to avoid collision with async keyword
• Added CallbackQueryCoordinator and CallbackQueryAble to facilitate transparent handling of CallbackQuery
• Added AnswererMixin to give an Answerer instance
• Added Timer to express different timeout behaviors
• Added enable_callback_query parameter to *Handler constructors
• Added default on_timeout method to @openable decorator
• Added IdleTerminate and AbsentCallbackQuery as subclasses of WaitTooLong to distinguish between different timeout situations
• Revamped Listener to handle different timeout requirements
• Added types parameter to per_chat_id()
• By default, per_from_id() and UserHandler reacts to non-callback_query only
• Fixed Bot.download_file()
• Added docstrings for Sphinx generation
• Re-organized examples