(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); So im trying to work on some sort of update system with a python application im working on. Here is just a snippet of it.

    

import requests

import sys



appversion = "103"



def checkUpdates(appversion):

	updateURL = "https://localhost/tests.php"

	package = {'tool':'checkforupdate', 'version':appversion}

	updateRequest = requests.get(updateURL, params=package)

	if updateRequest.text == "updatenow":

		print "New update available!"

	if updateRequest.text == "current":

		print "Running Latest Version"



checkUpdates(appversion)

Sends a GET request to a central server. (localhost for now) The server will send back a string or some sort of data. Here is the PHP script the central server will be running.

    

<?php

error_reporting(0);

$tool = $_GET['tool'];

$version = $_GET['version'];



if(empty($tool) or empty($version)) {

	exit(); //could return something

}



if($version < "102") { // number could be a variable. data from database

	echo "updatenow";

}

else {

	echo "current";

}

?>

Obviously the php script would verify it more but for now its staying simple. Version would probably have an is_numeric() call in it. Proper precautions from SQL injection could also be done.

I just want to see if this would be the best way. Is there a better and smaller way to do it? FTP is not an option for this at the moment. Feedback would be nice.

Although I wouldn't know how to do it in Python as I haven't messed with it far enough to do this:

Getting and reading the data from an XML file would be a good option. If the value in the XML version file is greater than the file you have running when it checks, simply alert the user there is an update. Define a location on a host that will contain the updated file(s).

Then simply request to download them.

That is actually a good idea. I havent thought about something like that. I might try experimenting with that method.

It's what I do whenever I want to create an updater for a program. I assume you have your own host because you have your own website. Just stick the XML file somewhere in it.

For my programs I used a text document containing the latest update version and my program checks against that when ran.