No, this is just an ordinary file somewhere. It's executed in a service.
You installed the Python package from the github repo?

This is what I have now, could use some cleanup when it's working...

All seems to be working, except myring.active_alerts() is always empty.

from ring_doorbell import Ring, Auth
from time import sleep
from oauthlib.oauth2 import MissingTokenError
from pathlib import Path
import urllib2
import ...

Anyone still working with this library?

I've connected it with my ring 1, so far so good. I can get a snapshot (don't know yet if this really is the latest snapshot).
In an infinite while loop (2sec each) I call update_dings() function and check active_alerts(). But active_alerts() always returns ...