{"id":600,"date":"2009-08-08T20:40:06","date_gmt":"2009-08-09T03:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xiehang.com\/blog\/?p=600"},"modified":"2009-08-08T20:40:06","modified_gmt":"2009-08-09T03:40:06","slug":"python-for-symbian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xiehang.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/08\/python-for-symbian\/","title":{"rendered":"Python for Symbian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now &#8230; Python time again, since it seems to be the easiest way to develope some leisure stuffs for my new E90.<\/p>\n<p>So here are things to be installed:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.activestate.com\/activepython\/downloads\/\">ActivePython<\/a> for Windows, at this moment need to use 2.5.x<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/code.google.com\/p\/ensymble\/downloads\/list\">ensymble<\/a> for Windows, I&#8217;m using 0.28 (for Python 2.5)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stunnel.org\/download\/binaries.html\">openssl<\/a> for Windows, remember download openssl.zip<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/garage.maemo.org\/frs\/?group_id=854&amp;release_id=2763\">pys60<\/a>, current version is 1.9.7, this (the sis file) is for installing to my handset<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Install pys60 to handset is pretty straight forward, except you may have to deal with certificate, etc. &#8211; check those Symbian forum please, I don&#8217;t think my solution is the best (allow to install any software and don&#8217;t check certificate at all).<\/p>\n<p>Now, install ActivePython on Windows box by following instruction, then create a directory for ensymble (let&#8217;s say C:\\Ensymble), unzip the openssl.zip to that directory (all 3 files in total), and then the ensymble_xxx.py &#8211; I changed the name to ensymble.py so that I need to type less whenever I want to use it. As the last step, put C:\\Ensymble to your environment variable PATH.<\/p>\n<p>After everything&#8217;s done, let&#8217;s try the first Python application for Symbian &#8211; pick an open source application from <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.opensource.nokia.com\/projects\/PyS60_applications\">PyS60 Application Directory<\/a>, and build it. I was using <a href=\"http:\/\/code.google.com\/p\/magicvideo\/\">Magic Video<\/a> as my first test, download the py file, put it somewhere and then run:<\/p>\n<p>ensymble.py py2sis &#8211;uid=0x98765432 &#8211;appname=&#8221;MagicVideo&#8221; &#8211;caption=&#8221;Magic Video&#8221; &#8211;version=1.0.0 magicvideo.py magicvideo<\/p>\n<p>you will get a .sis file in the current directory and that can be installed to handset.<\/p>\n<p>Remember use uid &gt;0x7fffffff, I didn&#8217;t pay attention to the warning message on the screen and this costed me almost half an hour to figure out why the application cannot be installed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now &#8230; Python time again, since it seems to be the easiest way to develope some leisure stuffs for my new E90. So here are things to be installed: ActivePython for Windows, at this moment need to use 2.5.x ensymble for Windows, I&#8217;m using 0.28 (for Python 2.5) openssl for Windows, remember download openssl.zip pys60, <a href='https:\/\/xiehang.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/08\/python-for-symbian\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[112,27,120],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xiehang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xiehang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xiehang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xiehang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xiehang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/xiehang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":601,"href":"https:\/\/xiehang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600\/revisions\/601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xiehang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xiehang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xiehang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}