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Re: Python for iOS

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Post by JonathanHosmer » Sun, Feb 26, 2012, 2:20 AM UTC

easp wrote: post #39

Can it save anything to the filesystem (within its own sandbox?)

Yes, you can save/load script files and interpreter sessions to the device. The save path is in sys.path so those saved scripts can be imported into other scripts or the interpreter as well.

Re: Python for iOS

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Post by rsynnott » Sun, Feb 26, 2012, 4:35 AM UTC

micheljansen wrote: post #13

Is this a fully capable interpreter? In other words, is it capable of importing and running code from external sources? This would allow for some cool use cases.

As it provides exec and a HTTP client, it more or less is. Here's an example, with code to make loading a multi-module library feasible: http://myblog.rsynnott.com/2012/02/fun-with-python-for-ios.h...

Re: Python for iOS

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Post by 77ko » Tue, Mar 06, 2012, 11:33 PM UTC

Great program! Couple of suggestions:

* Can you add a free python reference like this one: http://www.diveintopython.net/

* Syntax highlighting!

* Dropbox support - a very simple module to save .py or txt files into a dropbox folder and sync - this would be great!

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