[Python-ideas] Adding iOS/Android support to Python

[Russell Keith-Magee]

Hi Todd,

On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 8:18 PM, Todd <toddrjen at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On Oct 25, 2014 10:13 AM, "Russell Keith-Magee" <russell at keith-magee.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 3:36 PM, Todd <toddrjen at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Oct 25, 2014 4:22 AM, "Russell Keith-Magee" <russell at keith-magee.com>
> wrote:
> >> >  3) Disabling certain modules on mobile platforms. Supporting modules
> like linuxaudiodev, ossaudiodev, readline, curses, idle and tkinter on
> mobile platforms doesn't make much sense; modules likes bsddb and bz2 are
> difficult to support due to library dependencies; and the need for modules
> like multiprocessing is arguable (and difficult to support on mobile). Even
> providing a Python executable/shell is arguable for these platforms.
> >>
> >> I would definitely be extremely interested in a python shell in
> android.  One thing I feel are lacking on android are good advanced
> mathematical tools and and python shell with appropriate libraries could
> make a very powerful open-source tool for that.  There have been some
> attempts at that already.
> >
> > Yes - and (to the best of my knowledge) none of them provide the default
> Python shell. They're custom user interfaces, using native system controls,
> that provide a shell-like UI. What I'm talking about here is the literal
> "python.exe" build target - the one that is an executable that starts and
> expects to attach to stdin/stdout. *That* executable isn't practical on
> Android *or* iOS, because neither platform has the concept of a "console"
> in the traditional Unix sense of the word.
>
> Perhaps no console by default, but it is possible to have a traditional
> console on android.  I have one and many ROMs install one by default.  So
> although it may not be part of the default configuration I think it would
> be good to support it for the people who do have a console.
>
> Further, with rooted users, python could be set up to be used with the
> built-in adb shell.
>
It is unclear from the discussion where things ultimately came out on this
> issue. If there still a possibility it might removed, although I understand
> that consoles are not the primary use-case, I think is still a valid
> use-case that should supported.
>
Supporting rooted devices and "unix console on mobile device" features are
of no interest to me personally; so I suppose the question is whether
providing support for these use cases would be an impediment to a set of
patches being added to Python's trunk.

Yours,
Russ Magee %-)
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