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Hey all,

I am going to ask a silly question- but so don't know, so i'm asking!

Can apps on the iOS echo system share functionality?

ie - Lately I wanted to improve my skills, so i am attempting to use ctypes to implement the full libz.dylib, compression.dylib, and maybe a few others.

Why? "meh", or "so others can use a progress bar extracting zip files". Yes, I know it's useless.

Okay - then I got thinking- all this exists for iOS, but since I can't build custom modules for Pythonista- I guess I am wondering if I can develop native apps that can provide functionality to the Pythonista community?

FYI: I may still do the whole ctypes thing for fun..

Any thoughts would be grand!

You can build modules for pythonista users. Distribute via gist or GitHub.

Has anyone published anything Pythonista-specific on PyPi (pip)?

I was thinking more of a C++ module.

From what I know you can build frameworks using Swift or Objective C, but i'm not sure how all that would work with Pythonista- ie downloading the binaries and attempting to use them via ctypes in Pythonista.

Make sense?

Meant to add this:

Ideally I would build a framework in Objective C, set the class to PUBLIC (if it lets me), build/sign using my credentials, then attempting to load it via Pythonista from the local filesystem.

I am most certainly sure it won't work, but I'd like to try :)

ie - we can load .dylib's from /use/lib, as well as Frameowrks, if it's a signed binary, downloaded and extracted into the Pythonista space- might it work?

@mikael

Yep - https://pypi.org/project/pythonista-api-client/

Seeing as Pythonista has an embedded CPython interpreter, no reason why not, it will still likely work on CPython apps, except for internal requirements.

@reticulated, thanks.

A follow-up question: has anyone published something to PyPi from Pythonista?

@mikael said:

@reticulated, thanks.

A follow-up question: has anyone published something to PyPi from Pythonista?

Im not sure - but it's definitely possible, it's just an API call.

Packaging the app should also work.

I don't have anything worth distributing else I'd do it for a POC.

@mikael I tried to do it with setuptools twine from my iPhone, but never managed to make it work. I had to resort to a Mac.