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Alex Gonzalez
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Alex González is a software engineering supervisor at Digi International and product owner of the Digi Embedded Yocto distribution. He started working professionally with embedded systems in 1999 and the Linux kernel in 2004, designing products for voice and video over IP networks, and followed his interests into machine-to-machine (M2M) technologies and the Internet of Things. Born and raised in Bilbao, Spain, Alex has an electronic engineering degree from the University of the Basque Country and he received his MSc in communication systems from the University of Portsmouth.
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Adding Python applications


Python is a widely-used, interpreted high-level programming language. Poky has support for building both Python 2 and Python 3 applications, and includes a small set of Python development tools in the meta/recipes-devtools/python directory. A wider variety of Python applications are available in the meta-python layer included as part of meta-openembedded, which you can optionally add to your conf/bblayers.conf.

Getting ready

The standard tool for packaging Python modules is Distutils, which is included for both Python 2 and Python 3. Poky includes the distutils class (distutils3 in Python 3), which is used to build Python packages that use distutils. An example recipe in meta-python that uses the distutils class is meta-python/recipes-devtools/python/python-numeric_24.2.bb, shown next:

SUMMARY = "A sophisticated Numeric Processing Package for Python"                
SECTION = "devel/python"                                                         
LICENSE = "PSF &...
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Alex González is a software engineering supervisor at Digi International and product owner of the Digi Embedded Yocto distribution. He started working professionally with embedded systems in 1999 and the Linux kernel in 2004, designing products for voice and video over IP networks, and followed his interests into machine-to-machine (M2M) technologies and the Internet of Things. Born and raised in Bilbao, Spain, Alex has an electronic engineering degree from the University of the Basque Country and he received his MSc in communication systems from the University of Portsmouth.
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