I’m looking for an Android python compiler interpreter that runs locally on my phone. Any suggestions are appreciated. FOSS apps preferred of course.

Edit: changed compiler to interpreter

Edit 2: I ended up going with Pydroid3. I wish there was a FOSS alternative.

  • @testfactorEnglish
    6•3 months ago

    I think there’s several reasons for that, not the least of which is that you can’t distribute python bytecode.

    With java, I run through an intentional compilation step and then ship the jar file to my consumers. I’d never ship a .pyc to the field.

    In python (specifically cpython), that step is just an implementation detail of the interpreter/runtime.
    If you ever used something other than the default python interpreter, it probably wouldn’t implement the same bytecode subsystem under the hood. Python bytecode isn’t part of the spec.