[PythonCE] How do you develop on the PocketPC?

[Luke Dunstan]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Thomas Heller" <theller at python.net>
To: <pythonce at python.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 2:47 AM
Subject: Re: [PythonCE] How do you develop on the PocketPC?


> "Luke Dunstan" <coder_infidel at hotmail.com> writes:
>> We should probably consider putting all these scripts in CVS somewhere.
>
> And we should probably use the pocketRapi module that Brian Brown
> posted.

I am interested to know why you prefer it. I can think of the following 
advantages:

- It initialises RAPI the first time you try to use it, and remembers this.
- It includes more file I/O functions.

I'm sure it is good for some purposes, but I can also think of some possible 
disadvantages:

- The functions are in a class instead of a module. This means that you 
could create multiple instances of the class, which doesn't make sense.
- The name "pocketRapi" implies Pocket PC only but RAPI really applies to 
Windows CE in general.
- It requires win32file.
- The file I/O functions do not follow the pattern of Python file objects.
- It doesn't include the last error codes in exceptions raised.
- It doesn't use "argtypes" or "restype". I don't know if this makes it 
faster?
- Redistributions in "binary form" must reproduce the copyright notice.

Luke

> There are important things missing, IMO: the ability to interrupt
> running code with ^C, and to terminate the session with typing ^Z.
> Unfortunately, I have not even be able to distinguish ^C from ^Z in the
> get_input() function.  It seems that both raise an EOFError in the
> thread that get_input() runs.  Maybe we cannot use raw_input, and have
> to write our own function for that...
>
> Thomas
>
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