Adding Python applications
In Yocto 1.7, 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 add to your conf/bblayers.conf file if you want to.
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-pyusb_1.0.0a2.bb ...
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