General Discussion - Python Integration

#1

This is for general discussions around integrating Paynow into your Python applications

#2
#3

Have you thought about creating a django plugin.

#4

Hey mate i can do that i am currently developing one for flask

#5

Hi @admaku. Can you please share the link to the plugin’s repository so we can collaborate on it? :slightly_smiling_face:

#6

great!!!, taking contributions?:smiley:

#7

Just started on it but will be done byFriday

#8

Perfect, will check it out :smile:

#9

@admaku do you work at paynow?

#10

I opened a pull request and its now 2 weeks old

#11

@paynow, is it possible that you can alert us of new changes in the API, I recently encountered a nasty bug which broke everything,

“status.paid” is now “status” type “str” not boolean ), if this is the new standard then please update documentation…And also a suggestion can you please create a repo we can fork.

#12

I am getting this error. ImportError: cannot import name 'Paynow' . I installed paynow==1.0.4 and i am getting this error when i try importing it. Like:

from paynow import Paynow

Can anyone help?

#13

Here is what i did in my intergration utility ```from paynow import Paynow
from django.conf import settings
from .models import Payment
import json

class PaymentService:
def init(self):
self.paynow = Paynow(
settings.PAYNOW_INTEGRATION_ID,
settings.PAYNOW_INTEGRATION_KEY,
settings.PAYNOW_RETURN_URL,
settings.PAYNOW_RESULT_URL
)

def initiate_payment(self, amount, reference, email, farmer, phone=None, method=None):
if phone.startswith(‘0’):
phone = ‘+263’ + phone[1:]

payment = Payment.objects.create(amount=amount, reference=reference, farmer=farmer)

payment_response = self.paynow.create_payment(reference, email)
payment_response.add('Payment for services', amount)

try:
    if method in ['ecocash', 'onemoney', 'innbucks', 'paygo']:
        response = self.paynow.send_mobile(payment_response, phone, method)
    elif method in ['vmc', 'zimswitch']:
        response = self.paynow.send(payment_response)
    else:
        return {'success': False, 'message': 'Invalid payment method selected.'}

    if response.success:
        payment.status = 'Pending'
        payment.save()
        return {
            'success': True,
            'payment_url': response.redirect_url,  
            'poll_url': response.poll_url          
        }
    else:
        print(f"Error received from Paynow API: {response.error} (type: {type(response.error)})")

        error_message = str(response.error) if isinstance(response.error, str) else repr(response.error)
        return {'success': False, 'message': error_message}

except Exception as e:
    print(f"Error initiating payment: {e}")
    return {'success': False, 'message': f"Internal error: {str(e)}"}``` but i am having error and it not showing the exact errror ```{"success": false, "message": "<class 'str'>"}```  how best can i resolve this?