Matt and Russ have posted some of their thoughts about Amaretto, Nokia's port of Python for the Series 60 platform.

I agree whole-heartedly with their views, it's a great looking product, but it's currently a little incomplete (in a non-major but frustrating way), and we're all pretty much tied with NDAs to stop us engaging in our usual discussions and batting around of code.

It's no secret that I'm on the eval programme, I've mentioned it before a few times, and I was impressed by the helpful emails I received from a couple of Nokia folks earlier this week after Planet Python bizarrely grabbed my old mentions of the programme.

I still really hope that Nokia will release their Python source once they're happy with it as a basic product, to allow it to flourish as an open source project. This would make it far easier for the series 60 port to keep track with mainstream Python releases and fixes, and would also avoid the risk Amaretto becoming an oddball faux-Python that couldn't run the vast range of publicly available Python software.