what about using the current documentation? Do the python examples not help anymore?
http://www.quickfixengine.org/quickfix/doc/html/application.html
My testing scripts were based on this exampls and btw. there is no such thing as
the one-and-only fix program which connects to any fix server because exchanges
tend to implement their own number of messages and fields to met their requirement.
You always have to adapt it a little bit. FIX just defines the protocol and mostly the
workflow what needs to be done but you can expect that there is always a slight
difference from exchange to exchange.
Btw. there are also a lot of stackoverfow messages concerning quickfix and python.
I would think you get a better chance to get your problem solved when asking there.
Cheers
Claudia