[Baypiggies] CaltrainPy

[Nathan Yergler]

On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 12:46 PM, Alden Meneses <aldenm at gmail.com> wrote:
> This thread had me looking for a S60 phone for AT&T but no luck. Curious
> what carriers people have for their S60 phones and if they are using AT&T
> what they had to do to get it working.

I use AT&T; purchased an unlocked Nokia N95 from Amazon.com.  Just
popped in the SIM from my Blackberry, called AT&T to switch my data
plan over to the general purpose unlimited plan.  Took about 10
minutes on the phone.

>
> Also I was at LinuxWorld yesterday and stopped by OpenMoko booth and got to
> look at the Neo Freerunner. Not as sexy as the Nokia or Samsung phones and
> will also provide a debug board to allow you to tinker with the phone.
>
>
> On 8/6/08, 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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