1 EDK II Python 2 ReadMe 3 Version 2.7.2 4 Release 1.02 5 18 Jan. 2013 6 7 81. OVERVIEW 9=========== 10This document is devoted to general information on building and setup of the 11Python environment for UEFI 2.3, the invocation of the interpreter, and things 12that make working with Python easier. 13 14It is assumed that you already have either UDK2010 or a current snapshot of 15the EDK II sources from www.tianocore.org, and that you can successfully build 16packages within that distribution. 17 182. Release Notes 19================ 20 1) All C extension modules must be statically linked (built in) 21 2) The site and os modules must exist as discrete files in ...\lib\python.27 22 3) User-specific configurations are not supported. 23 4) Environment variables are not supported. 24 253. Getting and Building Python 26====================================================== 27 3.1 Getting Python 28 ================== 29 For development ease, a subset of the Python 2.7.2 distribution has been 30 included in the AppPkg source tree. If a full distribution is desired, the 31 Python-2.7.2 directory can be removed or renamed and the full source code 32 downloaded from http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7.2/. 33 34 A. Within your EDK II development tree, extract the Python distribution into 35 AppPkg/Applications/Python. This should create the 36 AppPkg/Applications/Python/Python-2.7.2 directory. 37 38 B. Copy the files from PyMod-2.7.2 into the corresponding directories within 39 the Python-2.7.2 tree. This will overwrite existing files with files 40 modified for UEFI usage. 41 42 3.2 Building Python 43 =================== 44 A. Edit Efi/config.c to enable the built-in modules you need. 45 Mandatory Built-in Modules: 46 edk2 errno imp marshal 47 48 Additional built-in modules which are required to use the help() 49 functionality provided by PyDoc, are: 50 _codecs _collections _functools _random 51 _sre _struct _weakref binascii 52 cStringIO gc itertools math 53 operator time 54 55 B. Edit AppPkg/AppPkg.dsc to enable (uncomment) the PythonCore.inf line 56 within the [Components] section. 57 58 C. Build AppPkg, which includes Python, using the standard "build" command: 59 For example, to build Python for an X64 CPU architecture: 60 build -a X64 -p AppPkg\AppPkg.dsc 61 624. Python-related paths and files 63================================= 64Python depends upon the existence of several directories and files on the 65target system. 66 67 \EFI Root of the UEFI system area. 68 |- \Tools Location of the Python.efi executable. 69 |- \Boot UEFI specified Boot directory. 70 |- \StdLib Root of the Standard Libraries sub-tree. 71 |- \etc Configuration files used by libraries. 72 |- \tmp Temporary files created by tmpfile(), etc. 73 |- \lib Root of the libraries tree. 74 |- \python.27 Directory containing the Python library 75 | modules. 76 |- \lib-dynload Dynamically loadable Python extensions. 77 |- \site-packages Site-specific packages and modules. 78 79 805. Installing Python 81==================== 82These directories, on the target system, are populated from the development 83system as follows: 84 85 * \Efi\Tools receives a copy of Build/AppPkg/DEBUG_VS2005/X64/Python.efi. 86 ^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^ 87 Modify the host path to match the your build type and compiler. 88 89 * The \Efi\StdLib\etc directory is populated from the StdLib/Efi/StdLib/etc 90 source directory. 91 92 * Directory \Efi\StdLib\lib\python.27 is populated with packages and modules 93 from the AppPkg/Applications/Python/Python-2.7.2/Lib directory. 94 The recommended minimum set of modules (.py, .pyc, and/or .pyo): 95 os stat ntpath warnings traceback 96 site types copy_reg linecache genericpath 97 98 * Python C Extension Modules built as dynamically loadable extensions go into 99 the \Efi\StdLib\lib\python.27\lib-dynload directory. This functionality is 100 not yet implemented. 101 102 1036. Example: Enabling socket support 104=================================== 105 1. enable {"_socket", init_socket}, in Efi\config.c 106 2. enable Python-2.7.2/Modules/socketmodule.c in PythonCore.inf. 107 3. copy socket.py over to /Efi/StdLib/lib/python.27 on your target system. 108 4. Make sure dependent modules are present(.py) or built in(.c): 109 functools, types, os, sys, warnings, cStringIO, StringIO, errno 110 111 5. build -a X64 -p AppPkg\AppPkg.dsc 112 6. copy Build\AppPkg\DEBUG_VS2005\X64\Python.efi to \Efi\Tools on your 113 target system. Replace "DEBUG_VS2005\X64", in the source path, with 114 values appropriate for your tool chain and processor architecture. 115 116 1177. Running Python 118================= 119 Python must currently be run from an EFI FAT-32 partition, or volume, under 120 the UEFI Shell. At the Shell prompt enter the desired volume name, followed 121 by a colon ':', then press Enter. Python can then be executed by typing its 122 name, followed by any desired options and arguments. 123 124 EXAMPLE: 125 2.0 Shell> fs0: 126 2.0 FS0:\> python 127 Python 2.7.2 (default, Oct 13 2015, 16:21:53) [C] on uefi 128 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. 129 >>> exit() 130 2.0 FS0:\> 131 132 NOTE: 133 Python, as distributed, sends its interactive prompts to stderr. If 134 STDERR isn't enabled in UEFI Setup so that it's output goes to the 135 console, it may appear that Python hangs on startup. If this happens, 136 one may be able to rectify the condition by typing "exit()" followed 137 by <enter> to exit out of Python. Then, type "exit" at the Shell prompt 138 which should enter Setup where you can use the Boot Maintenance 139 Manager to modify your Console settings. 140 141 NOTE: 142 Some platforms don't include the Setup utility, or don't allow STDERR to 143 be modified. In these cases, Python may be started with the '-#' option 144 which will cause stderr to be the same as stdout and should allow 145 Python to be used interactively on those platforms. 146 147 Depending upon the version of Shell you are using, it may be necessary 148 to escape the '#' character so that the Shell doesn't interpret it as 149 the start of a comment. The escape character is '^'. 150 Example: 151 python -^# -V 152 1538. Supported C Modules 154====================== 155 Module Name C File(s) 156 =============== ============================================= 157 _ast Python/Python-ast.c 158 _bisect Modules/_bisectmodule.c 159 _codecs Modules/_codecsmodule.c 160 _codecs_cn Modules/cjkcodecs/_codecs_cn.c 161 _codecs_hk Modules/cjkcodecs/_codecs_hk.c 162 _codecs_iso2022 Modules/cjkcodecs/_codecs_iso2022.c 163 _codecs_jp Modules/cjkcodecs/_codecs_jp 164 _codecs_kr Modules/cjkcodecs/_codecs_kr 165 _codecs_tw Modules/cjkcodecs/_codecs_tw 166 _collections Modules/_collectionsmodule.c 167 _csv Modules/_csv.c 168 _functools Modules/_functoolsmodule.c 169 _heapq Modules/_heapqmodule.c 170 _io Modules/_io/_iomodule.c Modules/_io/* 171 _json Modules/_json.c 172 _md5 Modules/md5module.c Modules/md5.c 173 _multibytecodec Modules/cjkcodecs/_multibytecodec.c 174 _random Modules/_randommodule.c 175 _sha Modules/shamodule.c 176 _sha256 Modules/sha256module.c 177 _sha512 Modules/sha512module.c 178 _socket Modules/socketmodule.c 179 _sre Modules/_sre.c 180 _struct Modules/_struct.c 181 _symtable Modules/symtablemodule.c 182 _weakref Modules/_weakref.c 183 array Modules/arraymodule.c 184 binascii Modules/binascii.c 185 cmath Modules/cmathmodule.c 186 cPickle Modules/cPickle.c 187 cStringIO Modules/cStringIO.c 188 datetime Modules/datetimemodule.c 189 edk2 Modules/Efi/edk2module.c 190 errno Modules/errnomodule.c 191 future_builtins Modules/future_builtins.c 192 gc Modules/gcmodule.c 193 imp Python/import.c 194 itertools Modules/itertoolsmodule.c 195 marshal Python/marshal.c 196 math Modules/mathmodule.c Modules/_math.c 197 operator Modules/operator.c 198 parser Modules/parsermodule.c 199 select Modules/selectmodule.c 200 signal Modules/signalmodule.c 201 strop Modules/stropmodule.c 202 time Modules/timemodule.c 203 xxsubtype Modules/xxsubtype.c 204 zipimport Modules/zipimport.c 205 zlib Modules/zlibmodule.c Modules/zlib/* 206 207 2089. Tested Python Library Modules 209================================ 210This is a partial list of the packages and modules of the Python Standard 211Library that have been tested or used in some manner. 212 213 encodings genericpath.py sha.py 214 importlib getopt.py SimpleHTTPServer.py 215 json hashlib.py site.py 216 pydoc_data heapq.py socket.py 217 xml HTMLParser.py SocketServer.py 218 abc.py inspect.py sre.py 219 argparse.py io.py sre_compile.py 220 ast.py keyword.py sre_constants.py 221 atexit.py linecache.py sre_parse.py 222 BaseHTTPServer.py locale.py stat.py 223 binhex.py md5.py string.py 224 bisect.py modulefinder.py StringIO.py 225 calendar.py ntpath.py struct.py 226 cmd.py numbers.py textwrap.py 227 codecs.py optparse.py token.py 228 collections.py os.py tokenize.py 229 copy.py platform.py traceback.py 230 copy_reg.py posixpath.py types.py 231 csv.py pydoc.py warnings.py 232 dummy_thread.py random.py weakref.py 233 fileinput.py re.py xmllib.py 234 formatter.py repr.py zipfile.py 235 functools.py runpy.py expat 236 237# # # 238