j.s. : there is a preliminary "optified" version of pymaemo in extras-devel (shaves some 20 MB off root) since last month, not sure if it has made it to extras yet

jeffbarish : I haven't seen any hints of a 2.6 pymaemo, yet. Anyway, that wouldn't guarantee that you'd get a full distribution with all the standard libs you want/need. At least, all the packages up to Maemo4 were trimmed down for size.

To both : if you're into Python and the N900 you should really subscribe to the pymaemo-developers list. It's low-volume, and the best place to keep up to date on happenings ask questions :

https://garage.maemo.org/mailman/lis...mo-developers/

edit: I see jeff's on there already - should've checked first :-)