Python is one of the languages supported by the Android Scripting Environment: http://code.google.com/p/android-scripting/ http://code.google.com/p/android-scri

Python is one of the languages supported by the Android Scripting Environment: http://code.google.com/p/android-scripting/ http://code.google.com/p/android-scripting/ I believe ASE is using CPython running as native code, with some kind of bridge into the Dalvik VM. I'm not sure what the status if JPython on Android is, but my understanding is that for many JVM languages it's non-trivial to port to Android, since many of them are expecting to be able to JIT to JVM bytecodes. This is problematic since Android doesn't use JVM bytecodes, it uses Dalvik bytecodes.