Reference: http://code.google.com/p/python-for-android/

./bootstrap.sh

Downloads Python-2.7.2 source
patches Python for android
builds hostpython and hostpgen

./build.sh

builds python library for android

./package.sh

creates python_rxx.zip and python_extras_rxx.zip

./pip_install.sh

install python packages using pip.

example:

    ./pip_install.sh python-twitter

1. I installed the following packages:

   sudo apt-get install build-essential cpp-4.4 g++-4.4 gcc-4.4-base gcc-4.4 bison flex autoconf automake autotools-dev quilt libcurl3 curl openssh-server ant mercurial filezilla pure-ftpd dpatch texinfo libncurses5-dev libgmp3-dev libmpfr-dev gawk patchutils binutils-dev zlib1g-dev 
   

   and

   sudo apt-get install git-core gnupg gperf libc6-dev x11proto-core-dev libx11-dev libgl1-mesa-dev g++-multilib mingw32 tofrodos python-markdown libxml2-utils xsltproc libreadline-dev libreadline6 ia32-libs-multiarch libzip-dev libzip-dev libzzip-dev libzzip-0-13
   

2. I'm using ubuntu ubuntu-12.04.3-dvd-i386 (32-bit)
3. check your gcc version, make sure you are using gcc-4.4, mine defaulted to gcc-4.6. I also changed default to gcov-4.4, g++-4.4.
4. android-ndk-r7c
5. andriod-sdk-linux
6. the site.py file inside python_extras_27.zip won't work, a work around for now is to replace it with the site.py from android-python27 project.

current status:

Python build finished, but the necessary bits to build these modules were not found:

_bsddb             _curses            _curses_panel
_tkinter           bsddb185           bz2
dbm                dl                 gdbm
imageop            linuxaudiodev      nis
ossaudiodev        readline           sunaudiodev

To find the necessary bits, look in setup.py in detect_modules() for the module's name.


Failed to build these modules:

_ctypes_test       _locale            audioop
grp                spwd