Access Xero from Google App Engine - python

I am trying to access Xero (Accounting Software) from my Google App Engine system. (Python 2.7).
The Xero example uses M2Crypto but this uses .c files which don't seem to work on App Engine. I also downloaded pycrypto from Google but this has the same problem.
At this stage I would just like my App Engine program to have a button for the user to log in to Xero. Any pointers for me?
Note: Some of these packages appear to need a visual studio or a c compiler, which I don't have.
An update. It appears that only a 'private' application needs pycrypto or m2crypto, neither of which I can install. A public application does not need these, the example I am following has both. I am continuing to work through this.
Thanks in advance
David (Windows Vista, Python 2.7, Current Google App Engine SDK)

I was able to access xero using pyzero, however there were a couple of gotchas, the most significant being the need to upgrade the version of urllib3 that comes packaged as part of the requests library.
I've created a simple project that demonstrates it in use.
https://github.com/hamish/gae_xero
The libraries that I needed to install were:
https://codeload.github.com/freakboy3742/pyxero/zip/master
http://labix.org/download/python-dateutil/python-dateutil-1.5.tar.gz
https://codeload.github.com/kennethreitz/requests/zip/master
https://codeload.github.com/requests/requests-oauthlib/zip/master
https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/o/oauthlib/oauthlib-0.6.1.tar.gz
https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/u/urllib3/urllib3-1.7.1.tar.gz (instaled into the requests/packages/ directory)
Additionally the pycrypto library must be installed and enabled:
sudo pip install pycrypto
[excerpt from app.yaml]
- name: pycrypto
version: latest

Your best bet will be to access the Xero API Endpoints via the AppEngine URL Fetch Service. You'll probably have to satisfy Xero API Authentication along the way.

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Only in google_appengine_1.9.49/lib: django-1.2
Only in google_appengine_1.9.49/lib: django-1.3
Only in google_appengine_1.9.49/lib: django-1.4
Only in google_appengine_1.9.49/lib: django-1.5
Only in google_appengine_1.9.49/lib: django-1.9
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