Pythonista Modules

The following modules have been created for Pythonista and provide iOS-specific functionality.

• appex — Utilities for Pythonista’s App Extensions
• canvas — Vector Graphics
• cb — Connecting to Bluetooth LE Peripherals
• clipboard — Copy and paste
• console — Utilities for Console Output and Various System Services
• dialogs — Easy-to-use UI Dialogs
• contacts — Access the iOS Contacts Database
• editor — Functions for scripting Pythonista’s text editor
• keyboard — Utilities for the Pythonista Keyboard
• keychain — Secure Password Storage
• linguistictagger — Linguistic analysis
• location — Geo-Location Services on iOS
• motion — Motion Sensor Data on iOS
• notification — Notifications on iOS
• objc_util — Utilities for bridging Objective-C APIs
• photos — Photo Library Access on iOS
• reminders — Access to the iOS Reminders Database
• scene — 2D Games and Animations
• shortcuts — Pythonista URLs and Utilities
• sound — Sound effects and music playback
• speech — Text-to-Speech on iOS
• twitter — iOS Twitter Accounts and API Access
• ui — Native GUI for iOS

Other Information

• The Pythonista URL Scheme
  • Basics
  • Command-line Arguments
  • Python Version
  • Launching Other Apps
• App Extensions and Shortcuts
  • Pythonista Keyboard
  • Share Sheet Extension
  • Editor Action
  • Home Screen Icon
  • Pythonista URL

Extras

The following popular third-party modules are also included with Pythonista. They are not part of the Python Standard Library, but they are not specific to iOS.

• bs4 — BeautifulSoup 4
• Bottle: Python Web Framework
• Dropbox for Python
• evernote
• faker
• feedparser — Universal Feed Parser
• Markdown
• markdown2 — A fast and complete implementation of Markdown in Python
• paramiko
• Python Imaging Library
• PyPDF2
• pyminizip — Create password-protected Zip files
• qrcode — Pure python QR Code generator
• Requests – HTTP for Humans
• xmltodict

Undocumented Modules

The following third-party modules are included with Pythonista, but full documentation is currently not available within the app.

You’ll still find at least a brief description and links to more information here.

• arrow
• certifi
• cssselect
• dateutil
• ecdsa
• flask
• html2text
• html5lib
• httplib2
• images2gif
• itsdangerous
• jinja2
• markupsafe
• midiutil
• oauth2
• openpyxl
• parsedatetime
• py
• pycparser
• pygments
• pyparsing
• pytest
• pytz
• reportlab
• simpy
• six
• sqlalchemy
• urllib3
• wavebender
• werkzeug
• yaml