Comments on: SDK released – Python in iPhone?

By: Mikko Ohtamaa

Mikko Ohtamaa — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:35:57 +0000

Please see recent discussion

http://www.telesphoreo.org/pipermail/iphone-python/2008-November/000244.html

It is possible and we are almost there

By: K C Jones

K C Jones — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 15:47:00 +0000

It would seem that i’m not alone in wishing there was some real python support for iphone, i don’t think developing on a ‘Jailbroken’ would do me any favours :/ .

“You can even statically compile it if you wish.” – this is interesting. I understand this but would something like PyObjC be that easy to statically compile? Footprint?

My own reasoning for using Python would be to use it develop an AI component in a game. This game is to be run online in a flash enviroment and naturally i would rather only develop the AI once…. but at what cost . I’m fully open to suggestions…

By: peter j mason

peter j mason — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:58:53 +0000

It seems that you have no helpers. I’m a s/w engineer (UNIX, c, c++, python, others) between jobs and perhaps I could help you. I found your site because I searched for “python iphone” hoping to find already started work. I’ll be travelling for next 6 weeks but should be emailable and on low priority for this during that time. Talk to me, but someone above on June 15th says it’s already with us??? So what’s that about?

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 04:07:43 +0000

A good insight, i think. it does look to be intentional. I don’t know if it is good or bad. May be we should thank Apple for preventing a torrent of low quality apps. Mine included
Nah, it is bound to happen one way or anther, the only question is when.

By: Manfre

Manfre — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:51:50 +0000

I think the lack of Python support on the iPhone is intentional. This forces anyone wishing to develop for the iPhone to purchase mac hardware and prevents simple porting of Python apps from platform to platform.

By: Gubatron

Gubatron — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 19:22:23 +0000

Damn gay ass Objective C, I want to start pwning in python for the iPhone, not learning all the stupid Objective C crap.

By: will

will — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 20:00:39 +0000

theyv already released it on iphone but I can’t download it for some reason

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 20:07:22 +0000

same here, helping in a port wouldnt be a option for me, but using Python to write apps for the iPhone 2.0 would be a damn sexy concept.

Something along the lines of ‘from iphone2 import X’ would be damn neat.

By: Mikko Ohtamaa

Mikko Ohtamaa — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 12:21:43 +0000

Python would be embedded in Object-C application. You can even statically compile it if you wish. The application user has no means whatsoever to know whether the app runs Python, Ruby, .NET or younameit internally. You won’t have a chance to distribute iPython (what a cool name I invented separately, except for development purposes.

By: Perenzo

Perenzo — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 12:12:23 +0000

Hi, I may not be able to help you porting Python to the iPhone but I would like to see Python running on this device soon I think this would be a great thing to quickly prototype new applications for the iPhone. But as far as I understood the SDK you have to write a Python app, publish it on the AppStore and then set the Python programs on top of this application. Maybe therefore the dirtribution of Python apps could become difficult or restricted by Apple AppStore.