hermes-python 0.1.25

# Hermes Python
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The `hermes-python` library provides python bindings for the Hermes protocol that snips components use to communicate together.
`hermes-python` allows you to interface seamlessly with the Snips platform and quick start development of Voice applications.

`hermes-python` abstracts away the connection to the MQTT bus and the parsing of incoming and outcoming messages from and to the components of the snips platform.

## Installation
The library is packaged as a pre-compiled platform wheel, available on [PyPi](https://pypi.org/project/hermes-python/).
It can be installed with :
```
pip install hermes-python
```

Or you can add it to your `requirements.txt` file.

### Requirements
The wheel is available for Python 2.7+ and Python 3.5

The wheel supports the following platform tags :
- `manylinux1_x86_64`
- `armv7l`, `armv6`
- `macos`

## Usage

The lifecycle of a script using `hermes-python` has the following steps :
- Initiating a connection to the MQTT broker
- Registering callback functions to handle incoming intent parsed by the snips platform
- Listening to incoming intents
- Closing the connection

Let's quickly dive into an example : Let's write an app for a Weather Assistant !
This code implies that you created a weather assistant using the [snips Console](https://console.snips.ai), and that it has a *`searchWeatherForecast`* intent.

Here is a code example for `python2.7` :

```
from hermes_python.hermes import Hermes

MQTT_ADDR = "localhost:1883" # Specify host and port for the MQTT broker

def subscribe_weather_forecast_callback(hermes, intentMessage): # Defining callback functions to handle an intent that asks for the weather.
print("Parsed intent : {}".format(intentMessage.intent.intent_name))


with Hermes(MQTT_ADDR) as h: # Initialization of a connection to the MQTT broker
h.subscribe_intent("searchWeatherForecast", subscribe_weather_forecast_callback) \ # Registering callback functions to handle the searchWeatherForecast intent
.start()

# We get out of the with block, which closes and releases the connection.

```

### Examples
#### Handling the `intent_message` object
*Coming soon.*

#### Providing TTS feedback for a voice application
*Coming soon.*

## Documentation
### Hermes protocol documentation
If you want to dive deeper into how Snips components communicate together, check out the specification of the `hermes-protocol` [here](https://docs.snips.ai/ressources/hermes-protocol).
You can also check this repository for other language bindings.

### API
*Coming soon.*

## History

### 0.1.25 (2018-12-13)
* Better error handling : Errors from wrapped C library throw a LibException with detailled errors.