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Nokia Offers Python For Series 60 Cellphones

Posted by timothy on from the my-nokia-had-snake-5-years-ago dept.

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."

10 comments

  1. dupe by BinLadenMyHero · · Score: 2, Informative

    again

    1. Re:dupe by DrSkwid · · Score: 1

      wrong, that was a pre-release

      this is the release

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    2. Re:dupe by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Well, he's half right. The original article should have been linked from the blurb. Still, it's not a dup.

  2. will python do what java had originally intended? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Java was in its prototype years meant for small devices. Perhaps python will do what Java didn't do.

  3. Re:will python do what java had originally intende by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    That would require some innovation, and we all know that The Community will never be up to that task.

  4. bt? by biryokumaru · · Score: 1

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

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  5. Another dupe... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Another dupe, by the same editor.

    Netcraft confirms!

  6. Mixed feelings by Pan+T.+Hose · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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. 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. I look forward to read about having Parrot VM 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.

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    Sincerely,
    Pan Tarhei Hosé, PhD.
    "Homo sum et cogito ergo odi profanum vulgus et libido."
  7. Re:will python do what java had originally intende by Clueless+Moron · · Score: 2, Interesting
    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.

  8. Documents.. by weicco · · Score: 1

    .. 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 operations?).

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    You don't know what you don't know.