Nokia Offers Python For Series 60 Cellphones

Eric Giguere writes "Python is now available for use on Nokia's Series 60 platform (versions 1 and 2), the operating system used on a number of popular cellphones like the 6600 and less popular ones like the N-Gage. It's Python 2.2.2 with additional modules for platform-specific stuff like SMS messaging. It's an alternative to C++ or Java, though no devices are shipping with Python preinstalled as of yet."

dupe

[BinLadenMyHero]

again [slashdot.org]

Re:dupe

[DrSkwid]

wrong, that was a pre-release

this is the release

Re:will python do what java had originally intende

[Clueless Moron]

Well, I just tried a "sleep 60" in both j2me and python on my Zaurus 6000SL.

j2me: VSZ 11952, RSS 3404, in 4 threads.

python 2.3.3: VSZ 2676, RSS 2284, in 1 thread.

That gives python only a little bit bigger footprint than bash. Not too shabby, considering what it can do.

bt?

[biryokumaru]

can i install bittorrent on my cell now? i've been wanting to dl illegal ringtones fer a while...

Mixed feelings

[Pan T. Hose]

This is an interesting news, and I have some mixed feelings. I hate it, I love it, and I don't care. I hate is as a Perl hacker. I love it as a Parrot enthusiast [slashdot.org]. And I don't care as a cellphone purist. To be more specific, as a Perl hacker I hate it because I am jealous. As a Parrot enthusiast I love it because what's good for my Python-using friends is also good for Perl in the long run. As a cellphone purist, I don't care because I have just bought a new Nokia 2300 which is already too bloated for my purist taste. All in all, this is an interesting news, even if not surprising [slashdot.org]. I look forward to read about having Parrot VM [parrotcode.org] available on cell phones one day, so we could finally have an efficient register-based VM suitable for optimal execution of programs written in moderen dynamic languages and be free from the JVM mistakes legacy. This in an important goal.

Documents..

[weicco]

.. are crap in Symbian world. They are often lacking important information or simply displayin false information. Easier way to determine interfaces operations is to look in the header file (C++). And instead improving documentation level Nokia introduces new programming language! Maybe this is good news for Python coders but I really think they should do something about their docs. Also the whole development environment is more or less awful (why the hell emulator is x86 based and lacking some basic operat