PyMaemo/Components

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Core

These packages are the minimal necessary to run or develop Python applications for Maemo.

python2.5
Version 2.5 of the high-level, interactive object oriented language, includes an extensive class library with lots of goodies for network programming, system administration, sounds and graphics.
python-central
Provides support for building and installing python modules independent of the current installed Python version.
python-defaults
Provides meta packages with unversioned package names (e.g. python-dev, which installs python2.5-dev).
python-runtime
Meta package which installs the basic Python runtime environment.
python-support
Provides tools for byte-compilation of Python-only modules, and automatic rebuild on major Python upgrades.

Bindings

These packages provide bindings for various Maemo components.

dbus-python
Python interface to D-Bus.
gnome-python
Python interface to various GNOME libraries: GConf, GnomeVFS, bonobo, libgnome, libgnomeui and libgnomecanvas.
gst0.10-python
Python interface to GStreamer.
lxml
Python interface to libxml2 and libxslt.
pybluez
Python interface to the BlueZ bluetooth stack.
pycairo
Python interface to the Cairo vector graphics library.
pycurl
Python interface to libcurl.
pygame
A multimedia development kit for Python, based mostly on SDL.
pygobject
Python interface to GObject.
pygtk
Python interface to GTK+.
pyopenssl
Python interface to OpenSSL.
python-alarm
Python interface to libalarm.
python-clutter
Python interface to Clutter.
python-conic
Python interface to libconic.
python-hildon
Python interface to Hildon.
python-hildondesktop
Python interface to the Hildon Desktop applets.
python-imaging
The Python Imaging Library.
python-location
Python interface to liblocation.
python-mafw
Python interface to MAFW.
python-notify
Python interface to libnotify.
python-numeric
The Numeric Extensions to Python (deprecated).
python-osso
Python interface to libosso.
python-xml
Python interface to XML (deprecated; use python-lxml instead).
storm
Object-relational mapper (ORM) for Python.

Applications

We provide some Python applications as examples, and that we find useful for PyMaemo users.

ipython
A enhanced interactive Python shell.

Development

These packages are necessary only if you are developing Python applications on Maemo.

cython
Cython is a language that makes writing C extensions for the Python language as easy as Python itself.
pyrex
Pyrex lets you write code that mixes Python and C data types any way you want, and compiles it into a C extension for Python.
python-setuptools
Extensions to the python-distutils for large or complex distributions.

Support packages

These packages are provided as dependencies for other packages, and are not used directly by users/developers.

sdl-ttf2.0 (dependency for pygame)
TTF library for SDL with FreeType 2 support.