Guidance on my approach

[wimgielis]

Hello,

I am seriously into hiking nowadays and want to create an app for it. I would start by having a list of stops along the way and, when checking in, useful information about the actual, next and previous stops would be shown. Distances, average speed, timings, medical help, food/drinks availability etc. It could even be just 1 py file with the standard stuff, in the beginning.

I programmed in Python before so that should be no problem. I own a new iPhone 17 and an iPad Pro second generation, 5.5 years old. Both have updated iOS versions all the time.

### Questions:

• Is my setup fully supported by Pythonista 3 that I see in the App Store?
• Is my iPad not too old? Also, 66GB of 128GB total is available.
• Would I instead better wait for the newer version with 3.13 support and new stuff?
• Do I purchase twice the app, once for iPhone, once for iPad?
• When I would have a new iPad, do I have to purchase again?

The main reason I came here is that my hiking app in the Shortcuts is such a royal PITA… Even converting a textnumber to a number is an issue and I got very annoyed (even though it worked fine), so verbose.

Thanks a lot !!

[M4nw3l]

@wimgielis Your setup sounds fairly similar to my own in terms of devices and this is why I like Pythonista, making random things that are useful for me. At least when I’m not developing libraries to extend Pythonista’s development capabilities to support some of the more complicated things I have thought make in my case…

To answer your questions:

• It -should- be, although I’m still on iOS 18 and I haven’t tested it on iOS 26 myself. Someone else may be able to confirm this.
• iPad and iPhone are new/good enough, I have the same iPad :-)
• Waiting could take a while, Pythonista doesn’t appear to receive many updates nowadays…
• No you should only need to buy it once per Apple account.
• Same as above, the app is tied to your Apple account. If you have multiple Apple accounts then yes you’d need to purchase on each account you wanted to use it from.

[wimgielis]

Thank you for the information, much appreciated. I can take a start!

Happy Easter days to all.

[M4nw3l]

No problem, good luck! If I recall correctly also, Pythonista’s integrations with iOS allows scripts to be run from Shortcuts as well, although I haven’t really used this.

[salabim]

Pythonista is great indeed! For debugging, I recommend my peek package (see www.salabim.org/peek), which is fully compatible with Pythonista (including coloured output). Vrolijk Pasen (Happy Easter)

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[wimgielis]

That will be my use case. Develop the scripts on the PC and test as good as possible. Then copy/paste the py file to the iPhone and run the app from Shortcuts. Every stop along the hike triggers an update in a json file and statistics are calculated, information is shown, etc. The shortcuts app alone drives me crazy for anything advanced. Looking forward to playing around with the tools ! Including peek Op zo 5 apr 2026 om 10:47 schreef M4nw3l ***@***.***>

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No problem, good luck! If I recall correctly also, Pythonista’s integrations with iOS allows scripts to be run from Shortcuts as well, although I haven’t really used this. — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#123 (reply in thread)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AEDHULIF6M4Q7UZVFS7QLOL4UIMQPAVCNFSM6AAAAACXNAHBDWVHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43URDJONRXK43TNFXW4Q3PNVWWK3TUHMYTMNBVGM2DONA> . You are receiving this because you were mentioned.Message ID: ***@***.***>

[M4nw3l]

Ah I see, if you’re developing on PC you will need to be a careful that your code is compatible. In particular if you use any python packages from pip, they will only work properly with StaSh/Pythonista if they are “pure python” packages. Or if the package is built into Pythonista already. There’s a list of builtin packages here but you will also need to bear in mind the versions of these packages if you use any. StaSh can install a good many packages generally still, although sadly it seems to have been lacking in updates itself too lately.

[wimgielis]

Thanks. Good observation. For now I will have enough with json, datetime, enum, typing and maybe re Sending an email to myself and others along the way would be a good addition too. Op zo 5 apr 2026 om 11:05 schreef M4nw3l ***@***.***>

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Ah I see, if you’re developing on PC you will need to be a careful that your code is compatible. In particular if you use any python packages from pip, they will only work properly with StaSh <https://github.com/ywangd/stash>/Pythonista if they are “pure python” packages. Or if the package is built into Pythonista already. There’s a list of builtin packages here <https://omz-software.com/pythonista/docs/ios/index.html> but you will also need to bear in mind the versions of these packages if you use any. StaSh can install a good many packages generally still, although sadly it seems to have been lacking in updates itself too lately. — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#123 (reply in thread)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AEDHULI352DJYIQDU5C6BJL4UIOUTAVCNFSM6AAAAACXNAHBDWVHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43URDJONRXK43TNFXW4Q3PNVWWK3TUHMYTMNBVGM2TMMQ> . You are receiving this because you were mentioned.Message ID: ***@***.***>

[salabim]

Here's how you can send e-mails:

import smtplib

gmail_user = "your.email@gmail.com"
gmail_password = "your password"
send_to = ["other@gmail.com"] # multiple e-mails are allowed
subject = "subject"
body = "body0\nbody1\nbody2"

try:
    server = smtplib.SMTP_SSL("smtp.gmail.com", 465)
    server.ehlo()
    server.login(gmail_user, gmail_password)
    server.sendmail(gmail_user, send_to, body)
    server.close()

    print("Email sent!")
except:
    print("Something went wrong...")

[wimgielis]

Thanks, I had done something like that in other Python programs. But good to see that it works here too. Op zo 5 apr 2026 om 18:46 schreef salabim ***@***.***>:

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Here's how you can send e-mails: import smtplib gmail_user = ***@***.***" gmail_password = "your password" send_to = ***@***.***"] # multiple e-mails are allowed subject = "subject" body = "body0\nbody1\nbody2" try: server = smtplib.SMTP_SSL("smtp.gmail.com", 465) server.ehlo() server.login(gmail_user, gmail_password) server.sendmail(gmail_user, send_to, body) server.close() print("Email sent!") except: print("Something went wrong...") — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#123 (reply in thread)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AEDHULLIPF4OFUMEDWLI6X34UKEXDAVCNFSM6AAAAACXNAHBDWVHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43URDJONRXK43TNFXW4Q3PNVWWK3TUHMYTMNBVGYZDCOA> . You are receiving this because you were mentioned.Message ID: ***@***.***>