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Revision as of 22:36, 15 October 2014

Introduction

The Harmattan Python project provides a Python (v2.6.6) runtime environment for Nokia's N9 phone and the N950 developer device built on the MeeGo 1.2 Harmattan platform. It provides a full-featured set of packages and tools to rapidly develop and run Python applications using the PySide: Python for Qt bindings together with the Qt Quick UI definition language. Applications can be deployed as individual Debian packages, using the community OBS, or eventually, via Ovi Store.

Getting started

The following links provide useful information for Python developers, including information about MeeGo 1.2 Harmattan Security Framework.

• Getting started with Harmattan Python
• Documentation for pyside-assistant
• Python Tutorial for Newbies
• Tutorial: Python+Qt+I18N
• Tutorial: Python+Qt+DBUS
• Python 2.6 porting tips
• Performance Considerations for Python Apps

If you are interested just in installing applications that depend on Python you can get a lot of them using the repositories listed here. All depending packages will be automatically installed.

• Ovi Store;
• MeeGo Apps;
• MeeGo Apps - Beta;

API Bindings

The Harmattan Python project tries to cover as many APIs as possible. Nowadays there are bindings for the green marked modules:

In addition to the listed APIs above (provided by python-dbus, python-pyside, python-qtmobility, python-qtsparql) there are lots of packages:

python-cairo          python-chardet    python-conic          python-content.action
python-context        python-crypto     python-dateutil       python-gconf
python-gi             python-gobject    python-imaging        python-libxml2 
python-lxml           python-magic      python-markupsafe     python-openssl   
python-pkg-resources  python-pycurl     python-pygments       python-roman     
python-storm          python-tralchemy  python-twisted-web    python-twisted-words 
python-xdg            python-numpy      python-beautifulsoup  python-feedparser 
python-pygame         ipython

Community Packages

There are Python packages also available by the community and not included in the Nokia's Harmattan repositories :

• IPython (enhanced interactive shell) 0.13.2 and 0.10.2 : see the topics in Maemo.org Talk
• SymPy (CAS - Computer Algebra System) 0.7.5 : see the topics in Maemo.org Talk
• MatPlotLib (2D & 3D plots) 1.2.1 : see the topics in Maemo.org Talk
• NumPy (numerical calculations) 1.9.0 : see the topic in Maemo.org Talk
• SciPy (scientific calculations) 0.14.0 : see the topic in Maemo.org Talk
• Uncertainties (calculations with uncertainties) 2.4.6.1 : see the topic in Maemo.org Talk
• Cython (C-Extensions for Python) 0.19.1 : see this Harmattan repository and OpenRepos.net
• Decorator (simplify usage of Python decorators ) : see this Harmattan repository and OpenRepos.net
• Pexpect (for automating interactive applications) : see this Harmattan repository and source code from Python Harmattan
• PyChecker (Python source code checking tool) : see this Harmattan repository and source code from Python Harmattan
• PyParsing (create and execute simple grammars) : see this Harmattan repository and OpenRepos.net
• Pytz (world timezone definitions) : see this Harmattan repository and OpenRepos.net
• PyZMQ (Python ZMQ) (Python bindings for ZMQ) : see this Harmattan repository and OpenRepos.net
• Tornado (scalable, non-blocking web server) : see this Harmattan repository and OpenRepos.net
• Twisted (event-based framework for internet applications) : see this Harmattan repository and source code from Python Harmattan
• Zope Interface (implementation of object interfaces for Python) : see this Harmattan repository and source code from Python Harmattan
• python-eventfeed: Library to post items to the Harmattan Event Feed screen
• PyFlakes (checks Python source code for logical errors) : package download and source code

See also Python packages in OpenRepos.net.

Collaborating

You can contact us using:

• IRC: /join #meego-python on irc.freenode.net
• Mailing list: meego-python@lists.meego.com (Info page, Archives)

Nokia contact person: Matti Airas <matti.p.airas@nokia.com>

Relevant Projects

• PyMaemo
• PySide