[Python-ideas] python on mobile

[Fetchinson .]

On 12/29/14, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 10:30:41PM +0100, Fetchinson . wrote:
>> On 12/27/14, Russell Keith-Magee <russell at keith-magee.com> wrote:
>
>> > This is an entirely
>> > reasonable approach if Kivy is what you want at the end of the day -
>> > but
>> > it's not what *I* want. I've been taking a much more atomic approach.
>> > The
>> > Kivy toolchain is also anchored in old versions of Python 2; something
>> > that
>> > definitely needs to be addressed.
>
> I'm not entirely sure why Russell says this. Kivy claims to support
> Python 3:
>
> http://kivy.org/docs/faq.html#does-kivy-support-python-3-x
>
>
>> As far as I'm concerned python 2 is perfectly okay. If I don't need to
>> worry about python 3, what drawback does kivy have, if any, according
>> to you?
>
> Well, you've just lost me as a potential user. I have zero interest in
> legacy Python versions for Android.

I sympathize with your approach and I'd probably take the same
attitude but so far I'm only using python 2 projects and developing
for python 2 only (unfortunately).

Cheers,
Daniel


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