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Python/Harmattan

Introduction

The Harmattan Python project provides a Python 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) 0.10.2 : see the topics in MeeGo Forum and Maemo.org Talk
• SymPy (CAS - Computer Algebra System) : see the topics in MeeGo Forum and Maemo.org Talk
• MatPlotLib (2D & 3D plots) : see the topics in MeeGo Forum and Maemo.org Talk
• Uncertainties (calculations with uncertainties) : see the topic in Maemo.org Talk
• Cython (C-Extensions for Python) : package download and source code
• PyChecker (Python source code checking tool) : package download and source code
• 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

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