Difference between revisions of "Python"

Latest revision as of 14:10, 27 November 2010

You can download all of this prebuilt in python2.6-chumby.tgz (13MB).

Just unpack onto a USB drive, add your python code and a "debugchumby" script, and you can write your own python applications for your chumby!

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-'''why Python?'''
+==Why Python?==
-* because writing is C sucks
+* because writing in C sucks
 * your time is valuable
 * once a python zealot, always a python zealot.
+==Compiling python from source==
-''' Compiling python from source '''
+# Construct the [[Scratchbox]] environment.
+# Download the source to the python flavor of your choice
+# {{Command|./configure; make; make install}}
-Supposedly there are patches that will allow you cross compile python.  Unfortunately I wasn't able to get it to work.  The problem is that the Python build system uses the binary it generates to finish the build process - meaning that in a cross compiling situation you have to build an arm binary *and* a localhost binary (i686-linux-gnu or whatever).
+==If you're too lazy to do all that...==
+You can download all of this prebuilt in [http://files.chumby.com/languages/python/python2.6-chumby.tgz python2.6-chumby.tgz] (13MB).
+Just unpack onto a USB drive, add your python code and a "debugchumby" script, and you can write your own python applications for your chumby!