Amiga Python for Classic Amigas

[nyteschayde]

So I've been messing around with Python and would like to see the version bumped on both classic and OS4 based Amigas. I am not entirely certain but it seems that Tim O'cock is the one maintaining the latest source (2.3.3).

His website is: http://www.monkeyhouse.eclipse.co.uk/amiga/python/

Does anybody know Tim or have a way to contact him? I've sent several emails to the email address listed on the site above but with no response. The source is also available for download but I'd like to get a context dump before diving in.

[nyteschayde]

Nothing huh? Ok...

[Matt_H]

Sorry, I've got nothing either. But that looked like a promising port. Hope you can reach him and/or bring it up to date.

[lorddef]

I had very brief email contact with Tim, probably even before that website was written.  PM sent.

[Noname]

Did you get a reply? I never got one from him. I am also looking for later,e.g. 2.7 version of Python classic. Any news in the meantime?

[nicholas]

Perhaps you could try compiling the MorphOS or AROS ports of Python for 68k?

I don't think either port use any MOS/AROS specific stuff so would be easier to port to 68k than the OS4 version due to it's weird new API convention.

I could be wrong though.

[TCMSLP]

On a different but similar note - I tried contacting the maintainer of the OS4 Ruby port to enquire if a classic port was even a remote possibility.   No response either.  

I notice Ruby 1.8 has also been ported to AROS so it seems it's not entirely out of the question - even if performance may not be great on 68k.

[NinjaCyborg]

The answer is that I on many occasions reached out to OS4 devs - whether the Friedens, Steve Solie, other Hyperion people - asking to collaborate on Python so that there was a common implementation on OS3 and OS4, and a common Amiga package for native integration, and no one ever even bothered to reply to me. If they had, I would happily work on maintaining both and we would now have an up to date python 2 at least, if not python 3. Python 3 is a vanity project anyway, IMHO. Python 2 provides everything you'd want on Amiga. Not as if anyone is doing AI big data crunching on Amigas.

[kolla]

We have this, which is plenty enough for dabbling.

https://github.com/jyoberle/micropython-amiga