Re: [semi OT]: Smartphones and Python?

2012-02-27 Thread Amirouche Boubekki
for which I could write Python programs. Android is good bet, kivy has official support for it http://kivy.org/docs/guide/android.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: [semi OT]: Smartphones and Python?

2012-02-20 Thread Dan Stromberg
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 3:36 PM, Paul Rubin no.email@nospam.invalid wrote: Martin Schöön martin.sch...@gmail.com writes: A very quick internet search indicated that this should be no big deal if I go for an Android-based phone. What about the alternatives? It works pretty well with Maemo,

Re: [semi OT]: Smartphones and Python?

2012-02-18 Thread Matej Cepl
On 16.2.2012 16:22, Michael Torrie wrote: Android simply isn't going to run the JVM anytime soon. In reality yes, but just technically speaking there is the project IcedRobot (http://www.icedrobot.org/), which is a fork of Android over OpenJDK. Best, Matěj --

Re: [semi OT]: Smartphones and Python?

2012-02-16 Thread 88888 Dihedral
The law suites of JAVA Vitrtual Machine from Oracle are famous now. But in 201X the JVM patents will be expired, thus it is not very urgent to chunk out a new jython now. Anyway just write codes that can be maintained and ported to other languages and platforms easily. Then I personally prefer

Re: [semi OT]: Smartphones and Python?

2012-02-16 Thread Michael Torrie
On 02/16/2012 07:53 AM, 8 Dihedral wrote: The law suites of JAVA Vitrtual Machine from Oracle are famous now. But in 201X the JVM patents will be expired, thus it is not very urgent to chunk out a new jython now. Anyway just write codes that can be maintained and ported to other

Re: [semi OT]: Smartphones and Python?

2012-02-16 Thread Benjamin Kaplan
On Feb 16, 2012 10:25 AM, Michael Torrie torr...@gmail.com wrote: On 02/16/2012 07:53 AM, 8 Dihedral wrote: The law suites of JAVA Vitrtual Machine from Oracle are famous now. But in 201X the JVM patents will be expired, thus it is not very urgent to chunk out a new jython now. Anyway

Re: [semi OT]: Smartphones and Python?

2012-02-16 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2012-02-16, Michael Torrie torr...@gmail.com wrote: You claimed Jython is or will be available on Android. It's not and Jython isn't being ported to Dalvik and it has nothing to do with patents. Android might use java a language, but the virtual machines are very different. And no

Re: [semi OT]: Smartphones and Python?

2012-02-16 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2012-02-16, Grant Edwards invalid@invalid.invalid wrote: On 2012-02-16, Michael Torrie torr...@gmail.com wrote: You claimed Jython is or will be available on Android. It's not and Jython isn't being ported to Dalvik and it has nothing to do with patents. Android might use java a language,

Re: [semi OT]: Smartphones and Python?

2012-02-16 Thread Michael Torrie
On 02/16/2012 10:38 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: I got curious about Dalvik, and was looking at the Wikipedia page, where it says that programs for Android are compiled into bytecode in JVM compatible .class files. Those files are then converted into .dex files to run on Davlik. I don't know

Re: [semi OT]: Smartphones and Python?

2012-02-16 Thread 88888 Dihedral
在 2012年2月16日星期四UTC+8下午11时22分44秒,Michael Torrie写道: On 02/16/2012 07:53 AM, 8 Dihedral wrote: The law suites of JAVA Vitrtual Machine from Oracle are famous now. But in 201X the JVM patents will be expired, thus it is not very urgent to chunk out a new jython now. Anyway just write

[semi OT]: Smartphones and Python?

2012-02-15 Thread Martin Schöön
First of all: I don't have any first hand experience of smartphones but now that my trusted old GSM phone is getting old I decided I am in for an up-grade. It struck me it might be nice to get something for which I could write Python programs. A very quick internet search indicated that this

Re: [semi OT]: Smartphones and Python?

2012-02-15 Thread MRAB
On 15/02/2012 20:58, Martin Schöön wrote: First of all: I don't have any first hand experience of smartphones but now that my trusted old GSM phone is getting old I decided I am in for an up-grade. It struck me it might be nice to get something for which I could write Python programs. A very

Re: [semi OT]: Smartphones and Python?

2012-02-15 Thread Paul Rubin
Martin Schöön martin.sch...@gmail.com writes: A very quick internet search indicated that this should be no big deal if I go for an Android-based phone. What about the alternatives? It works pretty well with Maemo, though phones with that are not so easy to find. My ex-officemate wrote some

Re: [semi OT]: Smartphones and Python?

2012-02-15 Thread geremy condra
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Martin Schöön martin.sch...@gmail.com wrote: First of all: I don't have any first hand experience of smartphones but now that my trusted old GSM phone is getting old I decided I am in for an up-grade. It struck me it might be nice to get something for which I

Re: [semi OT]: Smartphones and Python?

2012-02-15 Thread 88888 Dihedral
在 2012年2月16日星期四UTC+8上午10时19分15秒,geremy condra写道: On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Martin Schöön martin.sch...@gmail.com wrote: First of all: I don't have any first hand experience of smartphones but now that my trusted old GSM phone is getting old I decided I am in for an up-grade. It

Re: [semi OT]: Smartphones and Python?

2012-02-15 Thread Michael Torrie
On 02/15/2012 07:38 PM, 8 Dihedral wrote: In the 4 G space of SW AP in Adndroid phones, check Jython. But I think a better data compression modules is more helpful. Jython, though a very cool and useful implementation, relies on the Java virtual machine to run. It does not yet run on