You don't need to faff around in the sandbox to do python dev, just do it on your favourite linux surface, using glade.

I found the difficult thing was getting my head around the callbacks they are somewhat awkward compared with VB or ( for those who remember ) hypercard, probably far more powerful though.

go google for pygtk with glade and have fun

I have managed to get gpsd talking to python, will post the basics when I have got a mo

btw maemo has python 2.5