[Baypiggies] CaltrainPy

[Charles Merriam]

Hmm.. Well, I reading this at a Nokia forum in SF.  Next up is
"Rapidly Prototyping Mobile Phone Applications with Python" followed
by "Python Demos".  Likely you can work on Nokia phones.

Catch me at the next meeting for a summary.

-- Charles


On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 12:26 PM, Seth Friedman <sfseth at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sweet.   I did a search for python on S60 a few weeks ago and didn't see
> this for some reason.
>
> On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 12:23 PM, Bjorn Tipling <bkt at me.com> wrote:
>>
>> I think it's not about Apple locking down and being anti-python, it's just
>> that they haven't had time to make it all work. I think Apple has been very
>> supportive of python and has worked hard to bridge objective-c and python in
>> its Cocoa framework.
>>
>>
>> On Wednesday, August 06, 2008, at 12:20PM, "Guido van Rossum"
>> <guido at python.org> wrote:
>> >Um, Python has been ported to Symbian S60 for years now.
>> >http://opensource.nokia.com/projects/pythonfors60/
>> >
>> >On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 12:13 PM, Seth Friedman <sfseth at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> I was just thinking about Python on S60.   In a bit of anti-Apple
>> >> closed-platform ire, i've been thinking of replacing my phone with
>> >> something
>> >> I could code for, ideally in Python.   Not that I really understand how
>> >> locked down Apple is keeping the iphone, but the marketing folks at
>> >> Nokia
>> >> knew how to push my buttons when they build the website of the N96 and
>> >> all
>> >> the homebrew applications people could write on them... can't seem to
>> >> locate
>> >> the url this moment, but they were cute videos where... for example,
>> >> one
>> >> couple, the wife had written a lie detector program on the N96 that she
>> >> built for her husband..
>> >>
>> >> But at some level I agree with Nokia that these are really mobile
>> >> computers
>> >> - in this case with ~125x the cpu power of my first device called a
>> >> computer.   In a sense it's a little archaic to call them phones.
>> >> Sorta
>> >> like if we were calling desktops 'word processors'.    O'course, moving
>> >> the
>> >> mobile phone to mobile computer requires development community to build
>> >> enough different apps, at some point chicken / egg situation applies.
>> >>
>> >> Anyway, can anyone comment about how far away from a port of Python to
>> >> Symbian we might be, if there's the seed of a project anyplace?
>> >>
>> >> ~seth
>> >>
>> >> On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 8:02 AM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org>
>> >> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> Neat! I'd be interested in a port to Python for the Nokia S60
>> >>> platform.
>> >>>
>> >>> On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 9:05 PM, Heikki Toivonen <hjtoi at comcast.net>
>> >>> wrote:
>> >>> > I have had this little Python script for over a year, but it didn't
>> >>> > occur to me until today that there might be some interest on this
>> >>> > list.
>> >>> >
>> >>> > CaltrainPy (http://caltrain.heikkitoivonen.net/developers.html) is a
>> >>> > Python program that I originally wrote for my Windows Mobile device
>> >>> > to
>> >>> > help me figure out when the next train runs. It turned out Python
>> >>> > didn't
>> >>> > work out so great on Windows Mobile, but it works fine on desktops,
>> >>> > and
>> >>> > maybe it would work well in some other device where Python is a
>> >>> > first
>> >>> > class citizen. It uses Tkinter for UI. I then added a little
>> >>> > functionality to scrape the Caltrain HTML schedule and provide it in
>> >>> > more machine friendly formats. You can get the latest version by
>> >>> > doing
>> >>> > "easy_install caltrain".
>> >>>
>> >>> --
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