I've created a kind of PythonCE package. It is the zip file from the lib dir with a few extra things add. Namely the Twisted framework and xml support. Links to downloads are at the bottom, and an explanation of methods and motivations follows:
I've been playing around with network stuff recently and I've been reading about the Twisted framework on my PocketPC. While I was reading though I would get ideas for tests or ways to use the code in the examples. The problem was I couldn't run this stuff on my PPC because I didn't have Twisted available. Now for some reason I thought Twisted had some pre-compiled bits buried somewhere in it. So I opened up my laptop and did some poking around to see if there were any pyd files or such. But it seems that Twisted is indeed pure Python! So I grabbed the Twisted folder out of site-packages, cleaned out all the pyc/pyo files to save space, and threw it into my PythonCE lib directory. I know keeping the pycs would probably have been faster and smaller but oh-well. So I run the Python interpreter and try from twisted.internet import reactor, and after a longish loading time the import passed without an error. Next I tried from twisted.internet.protocol import Protocol, and this time there was virtually no delay in loading. Now the problem with Twisted as you may have guessed is that it's big. In fact after I stripped out all the py* files it was still about 7Mb on disk. Luckily in Python 2.3 you can import modules from a zip archive. That is what the python23.zip is in your PythonCE lib folder. So I copied the zip onto my desktop and I copied the twisted folder into that. While I was playing Frankenstein I also copied everything in the _xmlplus folder into the xml folder I found there. I saved a backup of my Python23.zip and then copied my new version over the one on my PPC. To my mild surprise I was still able to import and use both Twisted and xml after this. These big libraries though take up more space then just their size on disk. Twisted zipped takes about 1.5Mb, Python plus twisted.internet.reactor plus xml.dom.minidom take nearly 6Mb of ram when running. So, unless your writing a pocket sized web server, socket and socketServer are probably your best bet for network programs. Some Links: My python bundle: http://kitsu.petesdomain.com/files/WinCE/python23.zip provided 'as is' without warranty of any kind, either express or implied etc. A nice blog: http://blogs.unixage.com/blojsom/blog/adam.kruszewski/python This is where I found the working xml module. (scroll down) I am also hosting the xml module as well as other interesting stuff because cool PythonCE stuff tends to vanish: http://kitsu.petesdomain.com/files/WinCE/ _______________________________________________ PythonCE mailing list PythonCE@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonce
