Running python scripts on android

Question

I'am struggling running a python script which should allow me to write a text to a tag by using the nfcpy.The code is downloaded from https://code.launchpad.net/nfcpy

I have installed LS4A on my android device, but when I try to run the program the shell tells me that I miss the import nfc package. I tried google, but to no help. So can anybody tell me how I should solve this problem?

#!/usr/bin/python
# -*- coding: latin-1 -*-
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import os
import sys
import time

sys.path.insert(1, os.path.split(sys.path[0])[0])

import nfc
import nfc.ndef
import nfc.ndef.Text

def main():
    clf = nfc.ContactlessFrontend()

    print "Please touch a tag to send a hello to the world"
    while True:
        tag = clf.poll()
        if tag and tag.ndef:
            break

    text_en = nfc.ndef.Text.TextRecord( ("en", "Hello World") )
    text_de = nfc.ndef.Text.TextRecord( ("de", "Hallo Welt") )
    text_fr = nfc.ndef.Text.TextRecord( ("fr", "Bonjour tout le monde") )

    message = nfc.ndef.Message( [text_en, text_de, text_fr] )

    tag.ndef.message = message.tostring()

    print "Remove this tag"
    while tag.is_present:
        time.sleep(1)

    print "Now touch it again to receive a hello from the world"
    while True:
        tag = clf.poll()
        if tag and tag.ndef:
            break

    message = nfc.ndef.Message( tag.ndef.message )
    for record in message:
        if record.type == "urn:nfc:wkt:T":
            text = nfc.ndef.Text.TextRecord( record )
            print text.language + ": " + text.text

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Assuming that you ran the code as it appears here, you did not import android and so on.

In any case, the sl4a api does not support nfc yet.