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Using Pythonista library on the desktop?
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Hi, Pythonista looks really great! However, I'm wondering if the library can also be used or is planned to be used on a desktop OS and not only on iOS. Actually, I'm looking for a way to create a portable app that can run on many different systems. I also had a look at Processing and processing.js, but I'd like Python more than Java or JavaScript.
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The python language is portable, but my guess is that the Pythonista scene library is written in ObjC.
omz would have to release the source / port it to other platforms to use it outside of iOS.
There are other attempts at Processing done in python like this, though:
http://code.google.com/p/pyprocessing/
PyGame and pyglet are other projects to look at that provide cross-platform python controlled images/animation/audio.
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Thank you very much for the answer. Now I understand. I had a look at PyGame and pyglet, but they don't seem to be available for iOS. However, if one really wanted to port the scene library to other platforms, I think they could be good starting points. So as it seems, the only thing that currently really runs on Windows, Linux, Mac OS, iOS and Android is a combination of HTML5 Canvas with JavaScript, like the demos of the cocos2d library. It would be cool if something as portable as that was also available for Python.