RISC OS Python

This is the home of the RISC OS version of the Python programming language.

Links

• Python home
• Python documentation
• David Boddie's Python Resources
• David Boddie's RISC OS GUI resources for Python

Getting Started

Here's a short, unfinished "Getting started with Python on RISC OS" guide.

RISC OS Python 2.4.1 beta

(RISC OS version 2005-09-30; first RISC OS release)

Main RISC OS specific change: swimodule and GUI now use Python long integers

Binary distribution

For documentation see Python.org.

• Binaries, Libraries, Demos, Tools (not all Demos and Tools will run under RISC OS) (3547k)
• Binaries, Libraries (2702k)
• RISC OS additions: Docs (for some RISC OS specific modules); PeerBoard, SSLRelay; Toolbox and WIMP libraries, PythonW (WIMP frontend) and ZapPython mode for !Zap (580k)

Extensions

I haven't updated any of the libraries yet. If you need a certain library, please let me know. (For installation: extract and double click. Don't use from within the archives directly, as a lot of files would be created there.)

• NumPy (numerical extension) (577k)

RISC OS Python 2.3

(RISC OS version 2003-08-03; first RISC OS release)

Binary distribution

For documentation see Python.org.

• Binaries, Libraries, Demos, Tools (not all Demos and Tools will run under RISC OS) (3177k)
• Binaries, Libraries (2371k)
• RISC OS additions: Docs (for some RISC OS specific modules); PeerBoard, SSLRelay; Toolbox and WIMP libraries, PythonW (WIMP frontend) and ZapPython mode for !Zap (692k)
  Updated 2004-04-10

Extensions

I haven't updated any of the libraries yet. If you need a certain library, please let me know. (For installation: extract and double click. Don't use from within the archives directly, as a lot of files would be created there.)

• NumPy (numerical extension) (578k)
• eGenix.com mx Extensions: DateTime classes, TextTools,... (by M. A. Lemburg / egenix.com) (392k)

Examples

• PeerBoard: allows you to share your clipboard contents between multiple RISC OS and win32 computers over TCP/IP connections. This is now part of the additions archive above.
• POPinspect.py inspects your POP mailbox for mails larger than a given limit and asks for deletion.

Building from the sources

If you want to build Python on your own, you should download the standard python sources from Python.org and look at the directory RISCOS. You will need Acorn C/C++ Version 5. You should also download the RISC OS additions above.

Libraries for building yourself

• OSLib
• zlib
• 32 bit libraries
• expat
• riscos_expat: makefile and config.h for compiling the expat library (2k)
• DLK 0.4 (dynamic loading for RISC OS) (32k)

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