Pythonista Forum

[ifuchs]

Is it the case that the forum is no longer being maintained? It appears to be filled with spam. If that is the case, is there some place to post questions that will reach the community as before? Is this the place?

[cclauss]

I don't see any spam.

[ifuchs]

Then I am going to the wrong place (https://forum.omz-software.com/category/5/pythonista) is mostly spam since June,

[johnww2-nwxg]

I see mostly spam in new posts

[felciano]

@cclauss do you really not see Spam? The top several pages show up as only spam for me (us) -- see enclosed screenshot.

@johnww2-nwxg I think the reason you see "mostly spam in new posts" is that people have stopped posting questions, possibly because this spam issue is so overwhelming. But if you scroll down to the part of the fourm where questions were still posted (e.g. August 2023), you will still see >50% of the posts are spam, so I think this has been going on for months at this point.

[ByAzuraByAzuraByAzura]

Some knowledgable users still post there if your willing to dig through the mess a little but it's mainly filled with obvious spam nowadays

[mrlucmorin]

I'm a bit concerned about the future of Pythonista. @omz doesn't seem to replay to any queries, whether here, X, or any other platforms where he advertises as using.

As I mentioned in a previous post here, I'd be willing to pay for upgrades to keep the product alive. I can certainly understand the burden of maintaining a "side" project like this, but if there's enough monetary incentive, it can once more become interesting for him to work on it.

The one thing I'd really not want is for him to be sick, or worse passed away. I've seen this once with a superb piece of software, which unfortunately required connecting to a license server at install time. Once the author passed away, the server stopped being maintained, and from that point on, it was impossible to re-install the software. (un)fortunately, some guys were able to hack the licensing part of the binary, but it was really a messy situation all in all.

If @omz doesn't want to maintain Pythonista anymore, may I recommend that it be made Open Source? I'm sure many would chip-in to keep it alive and growing.

[cclauss]

As discussed in https://docs.python.org/3.13/whatsnew/3.13.html and PEP 730 Apple iOS will be finally a fully supported platform in Python >= 3.13. The current beta is available for download at https://www.python.org/download/pre-releases This work was led by the folk at https://beeware.org working with others.

There is also https://pyto.app to consider as an alternative.

[mrlucmorin]

@cclauss , I'm quite new to Python, having worked mostly with C# for the past 20+ years, and C++ before that, so forgive my questions if they appear to be basic to you.

What will full support on iOS actually mean in terms of developer experience? Will it be possible to have a CLI and REPL on the iPad itself, or will it require some form of remote connection? Currently, a CLI is only available through something like StaSh on Pythonista, but the integration is not seamless. For example, I've not been able to run pytest on it yet.

Also, when it says that Python will be fully supported, how will that be different from what Pythonista (or Pyto) already offer? Does it have to do with support for C modules?

Thanks for the information.

[mdxs]

@ifuchs and @cclauss : It appears to me that https://github.com/omz/Pythonista/discussions replaced the old forum and thus this issue (originally) about "Pythonista Forum" could be closed (and people here with outstanding questions/discussions can move it to the new discussion area).

[cclauss]

Can this issue be closed?

If not, what are the remaining TODOs?

[ifuchs]

Are the old discussions still accessible? I didn't see them at the link above. I see exactly 10 posts.

[omz]

@ifuchs No, the old posts aren't currently accessible, sorry!

[ifuchs]

That's unfortunate since it is/was a valuable repository of problems and their solutions using Pythonista.