It is possible to manipulate (add, remove, update) the content of the SIM card phonebook and to read and look for phonebook entries. The set of pbent_*
methods of the Modem
class have been implemented for that purpose.
pbent_find(query='')
Searches through the phonebook to find queries starting with the query
string argument. If query
is an empty string (default) then all queries in the phonebook will be returned.
find_pbent
raises AtCommandError
if no entries were found.
pbent_read(start_index, [end_index])
Reads a phonebook entry in by its index or a range of addresses if two integer arguments are passed.
If only one argument is specified and the entry exists, it will return a four element list of the following format: [index, phone_number, number_type, text]
where
index
is the message index,phone_number
is a string with the phone number stored at the index,number_type
is an integer representing phone number type,text
is a text string value for the entry index.
If two arguments are specified, it will return a list of lists (the above) in a range between start_index
and end_index
.
If end_index
is greater than start_index
the list will be reversed.
pbent_write(index, number, text, numtype=145)
Writes a phonebook entry with values as specified by the four arguments.
pbent_del(index)
Clears out a phonebook entry held at index
.