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You can download all of this prebuilt in [http://files.chumby.com/languages/python/chumby_python.tgz chumby_python.tgz] (3.8MB).
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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!
 
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!

Revision as of 20:44, 24 May 2009

Why Python?

  • because writing in C sucks
  • your time is valuable
  • once a python zealot, always a python zealot.


Compiling python from source

1) Construct the Scratchbox environment. 2) Download the source to the python flavor of your choice 3) ./configure; make; make install


If you're too lazy to do all that...

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!