Python/Harmattan

Revision as of 22:18, 21 June 2011

What is Harmattan Python?

The Harmattan Python project maintains a set of packages necessary to run and develop Python applications on the MeeGo 1.2 Harmattan platform.

Getting started

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;

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
• Python and Performance

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 

Collaborating

You can contact us using:

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

Relevant Projects

• PyMaemo
• PySide