Zinnia is a simple, customizable, and portable online hand recognition system based on Support Vector Machines. Zinnia simply receives user's pen strokes as a sequence of coordinate data and outputs n-best characters sorted by SVM confidence. For portability's sake, Zinnia does not include any rendering functionality. In addition to recognition, Zinnia provides training module that allows one to create any hand-written recognition systems with low-cost. This port provides Python interface to the library. WWW: http://zinnia.sourceforge.net/