Python Palm Port

Will Ware wware at world.std.com
Thu Jul 13 16:04:26 EDT 2000


William OConnor (wtoconnor at earthlink.net) wrote:
> I was interested in possibly doing a Python port to the Palm OS.  
> Is anyone already doing it? 

A few days back, Jeff Collins (collins at rush.aero.org) wrote:
> Announcing the alpha port of Python-1.5.2+ to the Palm Pilot,
> available for download after 8AM PDT July7, 2000 at
> http://www.isr.uci.edu/projects/sensos/python/. This release
> includes the modified Python source and tools for creating Palm
> applications from Python modules. As a convenience, we include the
> gnu toolchain required to support the Python distribution on the
> Palm Pilot. We emphasize that this is an alpha release and is
> deficient in many respects. We are releasing it now to stimulate
> interest in Python on small computing platforms.

What is currently available is an implementation of the Python
virtual machine running on the Palm. For the time being, you need
to compile your Python code on a desktop and download it as a
bytecode .prc file. An interactive user interface is forthcoming.
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