Comments on: PythonCE-2.5-20071004 Released

By: EraSER

EraSER — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 21:21:05 +0000

Hi,
I have run django framework with pythonce on my I-mate Jam!
It works nice, but I can’t run django shell

Have you planing to build newer version, 3.x?

By: helan4258

helan4258 — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:38:09 +0000

Hi,

The PythonCE2.5 smartphon works also well to my Samsung BlackJack. For further installation of Numarray from SF, do you have any idea about how to set it up? Thanks!

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:29:21 +0000

Hi to everybody.
I have installed this latest release of Python CE v.2.5 on Samsung i600 and it works just perfect! No issues with keyboard operation whatsoever. I need a help though: Is it possible to install Numeric package (built for version 2.4) in current release and if so how could I do this? Is NumPy package available for CE? In general, could anybody recommend brief self-containing description of building packages and their installing on Windows Mobile devices. I didn’t find any. If the developer(s) just didn’t have enough time to do this I would be glad to participate in documenting. Thank you for your great job!

By: William Lee

William Lee — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 13:40:41 +0000

Thanks very much for the port. I’ve downloaded the lastest version on sourceforge and installed on my moto Q9h, but it seems to have the same problem with Mark Brents mentioned that the “back” key works incorrectly, and I really can’t wait to try phython on smartphone. would you please send me the ‘alpha’ version of the next release? thank you very much!

By: Mark Brents

Mark Brents — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 21:52:45 +0000

I’m not that great of a Python programmer, so I don’t know how much help I could be. But I’d be glad to try out the alpha version on my phone. If you send it to me, I’ll install it.

By: Christopher Fairbairn

Christopher Fairbairn — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 20:58:48 +0000

For those interested the bug reported by Hannu turned out to be related to a third party application that he had installed on his device. Further details can be found within the SourceForge issue tracker.

By: Christopher Fairbairn

Christopher Fairbairn — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 20:53:00 +0000

Hi Mark,

Sorry about about. The last release of PythonCE I made was an attempt to bring together a number of my patches that had “collected dust” for a couple of months.

I had a number of requests for a smartphone compatible build (and this re-sparked my interest in the project) so I quickly pushed out something and attempted to recover what I could from the patches I could find.

Quickly after that release I discovered the issue you mentioned. I obviously missed part of one of the patches I had made.

I am planning to make a new release in mid November and the good news is that this is one of many smartphone specific improvements which should be made available at that stage.

Other issues you will possibly discover while using a smartphone that have already been fixed for the upcomming release include:

the use of raw_input(’some prompt’) displays a dialog which can not be closed
If using a device with a numeric only keypad there is no (easy) way to enter a tab character and it’s a pain to enter some very common characters such as : [ ] ( ).

If you would like I could email you an “alpha” copy of this November release in it’s current state of development. It would be great to have someone independantly test some of it’s new features and provide feedback etc before it’s released for general distribution.

By: Mark Brents

Mark Brents — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 15:56:48 +0000

Hi, I’d like to thank you for taking the time to do this smartphone port of Python. I’ve installed it on my Motorola Q. However, I’m having a slight problem: the backspace key doesn’t work. In most programs on the Q, the back key acts as a backspace when you’re doing text input. However, in this one, it backs out of the application to the previous menu.

By: Christopher Fairbairn

Christopher Fairbairn — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 10:18:44 +0000

Thanks Hannu,

That is interesting… I certainly have not seen this before, but have a couple of ideas on what may be happening.

What i’ll try to do is produce a small standalone test app (i.e. no requirements on a working Python) that tries to narrow down on the problem and eliminate as many scenarios as possible.

I have had success reports for similiar Samsung devices, so it must be something fairly trivial.

I assume what is happening at present is when you press the enter key, the cursor is jumping down to the next line, but Python CE isn’t responding by executing the last line of input. Is that correct?

By: Hannu

Hannu — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 08:53:40 +0000

Hi,

Thanks for replying. I just tried it again, just inputting print ‘k’, but neither Enter nor the D-PAD button does nothing.

I would like to run your test app, but would that be possible without the ability to execute commands in the Python console?

I’ll make a bug report to the PythonCE project.