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Python is a programming language first released by Guido van Rossum in 1991.

Python for S60 is Nokia's port of the [http://python.org/ Python]

language to the [http://s60.com/ S60] smartphone platform. In

Python for S60 is Nokia’s port of the general Python language to its S60 platform, based on Python 2.2.2 from 2002. First released in 2005, it featured a relatively small set of modules and functions. Version 1.2, the last non-opensource release and the second version of PyS60, brought many improvements and was made available on October 21st 2005 on Forum Nokia.

addition to the standard features of the Python language, PyS60

provides access to many of the phone's uniquely smartphone-y functions, such as camera,

After becoming opensource, PyS60 had the advantage that a strong and dedicated community could actively contribute to improving it. A milestone release was 1.3.11.

contacts, calendar, audio recording and playing, TCP/IP and Bluetooth

communications and simple telephony.

The newest version, 1.4.4, was release on June 27th 2008 and features significant improvements over the previous versions.

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