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Keep an eye on Pythonista. I expect there'll be an update based on this change soon making it a lot more usable. http://omz-software.com/pythonista/ http://omz

• rcarmo 9y ago
  You can already do quasi-pip installs on it., provided you're dealing with pure Python modules. (I do that by syncing files from my Dropbox via the API, but there are other ways)
• scrumper 9y ago
  It's already really useful. You can create local apps with home-screen icons on it. You can install whatever packages you want (download and run StaSh inside Pythonista to get a command line with pip). You can even use git with it, again through StaSh. For me it's a first-class Python development environment that I can use when away from my main computer. The only shortcoming today is that you can't get code into it except by grabbing it from a git repo or pasting it in from the clipboard. Today's policy change should directly address that limitation.
  • simonh 9y ago
    There are scripts you can put into Pythonista for pulling files in from Dropbox and a Gist, etc, but if you are working on a multi-file, multi-module app then syncing file by file is just way too painful. The way I do it is to run an FTP server app on the phone/iPad, connect in from my Mac and manually copy the whole directory tree. You can also export and email a zip of a directory. Snapshotting like that is survivable, but proper built-in sync or Git support is the holy grail.