Python - BeautifulSoup ?
 

Hi Does anyone know if BeautifulSoup is being worked on for Maemo 5 (N900) at all?

Cheers
Rip

Re: Python - BeautifulSoup ?
 

Beautiful soup is just one .py file - I have already used it in a project I am developing, but have no experience at packaging things. If I ever end up releasing my app I guess I could give it a go.

But if you are just looking to have a play, then you can just drop the file in to the same folder.

Re: Python - BeautifulSoup ?
 

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I want python-lxml. :p

Haven't checked what's required for it to work though.
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Re: Python - BeautifulSoup ?
 

so I can put it on the N900 and run the setup.py ?

or just the program I want to test needs to know where it is hiding?

Re: Python - BeautifulSoup ?
 

If it really only one file, include this into the package of your project and just "import" it.

On the other hand side you could as well port the Debian package (http://packages.debian.org/sid/python-beautifulsoup) to Maemo as it would be a nice "to have" along with mechanize ;-)

I did this with python-clientform and python-mechanize. It was not that hard after some help from #python-devel.

You can look into my packages, or into other python-${module} packages to fin out how.

Most likely you only have to add pymaemo-optify to "Depends"
http://maemo.org/packages/view/python-mechanize/
http://maemo.org/packages/view/python-clientform/

Cheers
Bjoern

Re: Python - BeautifulSoup ?
 

I'd love to I've barly got the grasp of making packages in debian with debhelper :p python just seems to confuse me even more.

Re: Python - BeautifulSoup ?
 

This is very simple to install from the developer's site. Just download the latest version 3.0 release, extract, cd into the extracted directory, and then:

Working fine for me.

Cheers,
Jan

Re: Python - BeautifulSoup ?
 

Well this is suitable for DEVS, but no enduser will install it this way.

If you write software which depends on python-beautifulsoup, you'll have to build a package for all dependencies of you software.

Thought this is only on .py file you could just include it in your project. But I would encourage you to build a package! This way not everybody has to include this .py file but can make use of the package you kindly ported to Maemo ;-)

How to quickly port a python package:

Add the Debain repositories to you /etc/apt/sources.list
Update the repo:
Get the source:
Alter the "Debian/control" file:
Update the "Debian/changelog" file.

Check the Debian/rules file

Test the package:
Maemo 5 Developer Guide - Packaging Deploying and Distributing - Creating Debian Packages

If it fails check the "Debian/rules" file.

If it builds, upload it to the autobuilder:
Maemo Extras Assistant - Step 1

Thats not that hard, is it?

Cheers
Bjoern

Re: Python - BeautifulSoup ?
 

Nope! Most things are easy when you know how though, thank you for the instructions. Of course it doesn't quite end there, as I'm sure you know.

I assumed that the original poster was a developer looking for quick confirmation that it would work before attempting the install. I don't think an end user will ever want to install BeautifulSoup on its own anyway...

Cheers,
Jan

Re: Python - BeautifulSoup ?
 

Go for it (I mean RipTorn in particular) ;)

Right! So lets rig up a package RipTorn ;-)

CU
Bjoern

Re: Python - BeautifulSoup ?
 

well, not a developer, but I've been using linux for awhile :p and have been testing some python programs out from another site. :P

Re: Python - BeautifulSoup ?
 

I can have a look in the morning hopefully :P and have a shot, can't hurt right?

Re: Python - BeautifulSoup ?
 

ok packaged this up, it seems to work perfectly for me.

I couldn't get it to build with the pymaemo-optify package and I couldn't find it in the repository either.

That aside.

Heres the package, I dunno if I sould try to upload any of my packages to extras devel as they are all just me trying to teach myself some packaging :p


Also disclaimers apply, may break everything yadda yadda :p

EDIT: my extras repository in the SDK wasn't working, silly me. I'll upload one with pymaemo-optify as a dep shortly.

EDIT: Added pymaemo-optify as a dep

Re: Python - BeautifulSoup ?
 

also another package I created for rtmp streams, was using these two programs together to download some programs so they are watchable on the N900

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=493484

Re: Python - BeautifulSoup ?
 

nice done. Did it build with the autobuilder? Did you check for proper optification (just in case). Cheers Bjoern

Re: Python - BeautifulSoup ?
 

Just in case you missed it:
https://garage.maemo.org/pipermail/e...uldron-builds/

here you can see if you package was run by the autobuilder and check the results

Cheers
Bjoern

Re: Python - BeautifulSoup ?
 

No I haven't yet applied to be able to upload packages into Maemo repositories

Cheers

Re: Python - BeautifulSoup ?
 

hehe, just pushing you, because I might need the package for my app www2sms in a future version :-) Thanks in advance for your afford ;-)


Cheers
Bjoern

Re: Python - BeautifulSoup ?
 

no worries :P

just a bit daunting looking at all the auto-build stuff ;)

Re: Python - BeautifulSoup ?
 

Ok tried putting it through the Auto-builder but it fails, not really sure why either, errors out when trying to run clean.

https://garage.maemo.org/builder/fre...log.FAILED.txt

Re: Python - BeautifulSoup ?
 

Well, here's the error msg:
So check the "rules" file in ${Path_to_your_package}/Debian/
and find out why the "rm" is placed there.

At least I would start to search there.

Cheers
Bjoern

Re: Python - BeautifulSoup ?
 

Yeah I've looked at that, its in the clean part of the Make file.
It seems to run fine on my SDK, I could remove it and test it, but I don't really know if its required. I wouldn't of thought the clean script is needed when only 2 files are being copied across.

Re: Python - BeautifulSoup ?
 

ok, worked part of it out, seems that when it goes through the autobuilder its not generating the compiled python files .pyc and this is why its erroring out. So I am guessing I'm not including something in the autobuilder that is on my SDK.

Re: Python - BeautifulSoup ?
 

Make "rm" in your rules file "rm -f". This will ensure that rm does not exit with a status code that != 0, causing make to exit and your build to fail. Depending on when the "clean" target was invoked, those pyc files may exist.

Re: Python - BeautifulSoup ?
 

Python compiles the modules on runtime. So apparently there is no need to precompile the modules.

If you want you can precompile (Byte-compile) the modules, which will speed up their loading time, but IMHO this should be done by the installer (at least it is handled this way in Gentoo ebuilds).

But you should avoid placing stuff in the .dep file which happened to be created during testing (like the .pyc files, backup files from editor etc...)

Cheers
Bjoern

Re: Python - BeautifulSoup ?
 

ok, I'll give these a shot later tonight and see how it turns out.

Just strange that my SDK is generating the .pyc and the auto-builder isn't.

I've changed a few commands in the make file to list the contents out so I can see this.

Cheers