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In my view a gaping hole in the Python for Android "stack" is the lack of Tkinter. I know that there are technical hurdles, though I don't understand them.

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Tkinter itself would need some form of mobile support or you'd end up with something like this:

http://files.alex-elliott.co.uk/qt/expressioneditor_android....

Wonder if some of the work from here [1] could be leveraged to fill that hole faster.

[1] http://www.androwish.org/index.html/home

That looks interesting, since one website said that lack of Tk/Tcl was the obstacle.

I'm not desperate, for now. My interest was piqued when I got interested in Python and Android almost simultaneously, was delighted to see that Android 3 would support Python, and bought an Android 3 tablet.

All of this is just in the name of recreational programming. My weird dream is to be able to write and run my code on any computer. But an un-anticipated side issue is that coding on a tiny screen is no fun at all at my advanced age.

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