Talking to Subversion from Python

I really like the idea of using Subversion as a next-generation filesystem. Like Zope's ZODB implementation, Subversion gives you a hierarchical datastore with things like:

• versioning
• transactions
• arbitrary properties
  
• remote access
  

But besides having more momentum than Zope as an open-source project, Subversion integrates better with the traditional filesystem, and therefore it plays nicer with existing tools: you can't run ls on the ZODB without olympian gymnastics.

One such existing tool is Python, and of course you can use all of Python's file and os.path functionality with a Subversion working copy. To use Subversion's advanced features, though, you do need some third-party modules. Luckily, by now there's a module for any use case you'd like:

• SWIG bindings--for accessing a local repo; bundled with Subversion
  
• PySVN--for manipulating a working copy
• PyDAV--for accessing a remote repo via WebDAV

So all the bases are covered: working copy, local repo, remote repo. One further project you might not know about is Kapil Thangavelu's unreleased ore.svn package, which wraps the SWIG bindings, giving you a nice Pythonic interface to a local repo.

Have I missed any svn-related Python modules? Feed back to Chad Whitacre.