{"id":424,"date":"2006-04-25T21:43:52","date_gmt":"2006-04-25T21:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta.robertprice.co.uk\/robblog\/2006\/04\/my_first_python_script-shtml\/"},"modified":"2006-04-25T21:43:52","modified_gmt":"2006-04-25T21:43:52","slug":"my_first_python_script-shtml","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertprice.co.uk\/robblog\/my_first_python_script-shtml\/","title":{"rendered":"My First Python Script"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nIt’s a full day since I started to try to teach myself Python<\/a> for my Nokia 3230 phone.\n<\/p>\n

\nMy first script is running, and though it isn’t anything impressive, I’m still very pleased with the results.\n<\/p>\n

\nSo what is this amazing script? Well it just gets the current location of the phone by CellID, using the location module supplied with Python, and displays it on the console.\n<\/p>\n

\nHere’s the code…\n<\/p>\n

# we need access to the location module so have to import it.
\nimport location
\n# get the mmc, mnc, lac and cellid by calling the gsm_location
\n# method from the location module.
\n(mmc, mnc, lac, cellid) = location.gsm_location()
\n# print out the retrieved details to the console.
\nprint \"mmc %sn\" % mmc
\nprint \"mnc %sn\" % mnc
\nprint \"lac %sn\" % lac
\nprint \"cellid %sn\" % cellid
\n<\/code><\/div>\n

\n\"screenshot
\nAs you can see it’s not going to win any prizes at PyCon<\/a>, but it does provide some very practical information for me, namely my location.\n<\/p>\n

\nBut what are those 4 variables returned?\n<\/p>\n