Any experience with Python on a PDA ?

[Duncan Booth]

Stef Mientki <S.Mientki-nospam at mailbox.kun.nl> wrote:

> hello,
> 
> I wonder if anyone has (good ;-) experiences with Python on a PDA ?
> And if so,
> - what OS
> - what GUI
> 
> thanks,
> Stef Mientki
> 

I haven't done much programming yet on my Nokia n810, but a lot of the 
community software for it is written in Python. Google for "n810 
python" or "maemo python" and you'll find plenty of hits. The OS is a 
Debian Linux variant called Maemo 4 (chinook), the gui is something 
called Hildon which sits on top of GTK.

Here are videos and screenshots of something that is implemented largely 
in Python:

http://openbossa.indt.org/canola/

and from another page on that site:
> Canola uses and contributes (when possible) with the following
> components :
> 
>     * Python as main development language
>     * Atabake as media engine
>     * LMS as media scanner
>     * EFL for drawing, thumbnails and UI scripting
>     * We also created all the required bindings to enable python to 
>       use EFL; get them here
>     * Components licensed under GPL/LGPL such as Canola daemon and LMS
> 
> We also encourage and promote the use of Python and EFL for rich UI
> applications that require increased performance and flexibility over
> today's available SDL or Pygame. So feel free to talk to the
> development team at #canola on the freenode IRC servers.