The State Of Python

4 replies · 1,724 views · Started 20 April 2006

slitchfield 20 Apr 2006, 07:31

Steve Litchfield updates a Python project of his for Series 60 and casts an objective eye over the state of this newest S60 development language. How easy is it really to get to grips with and what does the future hold?

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Dr, Who? 20 Apr 2006, 10:08

Don't know an awful lot about Python but is it not a HUGE problem that you need a massive Python compiler running every time you want to run a Python based program - I saw the memory requirement once and it looked horrific, especially if all I want to do is run your little music client. Am I just confused on this?

slitchfield 20 Apr 2006, 18:32

Well, it's only 1.5MB or so of RAM, and I think it's shared by any other Python apps? Must do some testing. Not much worse than the OPL runtime on UIQ, for example, and miles better than the 5MB or so Java eats up per midlet.

Steve

Dr, Who? 21 Apr 2006, 07:51

Ah, OK - 1.5Mb ain't so bad. My memory might be failing me as I thought I had seen it written as 5 or 10Mb.

slitchfield 21 Apr 2006, 08:07

Nope. Nokia seem to have done quite a good job at porting it to S60. It starts pretty fast, too, compared to things like the AppForge Visual Basic runtime.

Steve