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Mobile Applications

I am quite interested in writing little apps for mobile devices. So far, I have written some for my Sharp Zaurus using Riverbanks Python. Now, I am looking at Nokia’s Python for Series 60 Phones.

See also Mobile Python on the Mac OS X for a good setup how-to for Nokia’s python on the Mac.

Yahoo Search API's for Python

Yahoo has introduced a new search API that allows Python, as well as other languages, access to programming the search engine. I have previously used Google’s API for the same thing, creating scripts like Ask Merlin.

Yahoo’s API offers more options in some ways, as in video, local, image, news, and web search methods; and allows 5000 interrogations of the search engine per day, compared to the Google 1000 per day. And yes, I have exceeded the Google limit more than once ;-))).

I plan to explore Yahoo’s API, and I have some innovative ideas to try out. I will certainly offer up my scripts on this web site. As I am traveling overseas right now and quite busy with my day job, it may be a little while before I can complete anything.

Yahoo’s API can be found at Yahoo API and another interesting link is Yahoo Search Python API How-To.