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Cool and all, but with the rules on downloadable interpreted code I can't imagine this being super useful.

• zokier 14y ago
  doesn't it have eval and urllib?
• statictype 14y ago
  I think I'd find it handy for doing quick calculations. It would be nice if it had bindings to access UIKit or other iOS APIs. You would still have to load python, open your program file and run it, but I can see that is being useful for small utilities like currency converters or tip calculators.
  • rilie 14y ago
    Agreed. But unless Apple fundamentally change their policy, which I guess is very unlikely, this is going to remain more of a toy.
• dinedal 14y ago
  I have a friend with a printing press. He had to pull out all the letters and place them in the press and align them, ink them, and then press to add text to his hand printed greeting cards. At the time, I had a Droid and the Android Scripting Kit, which included Python, in a sandbox as well. I was sitting there, watching him, and told him that I could automate that process for him. In the time it took for him to count half the letters out for the message, I wrote a program on my phone that solved the problem of counting how many letters he needed for a given text string, emailed it to him for him to run on his laptop, and gave him the answer for the current string he was working on. The use case is on the spot coding.