Pythom in embedded system?
M.-A. Lemburg
mal at lemburg.com
Wed Sep 1 04:37:34 EDT 1999
Vjekoslav NESEK wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I would like to ask all you python source code hackers:
>
> 1) Is it possible to remove all os dependant (just ansii c) code
> from distributions, leaving only core intepreter?
>
> 2) Is it possible to run it on 16bit machine
>
> 3) What is a minimum RAM requirements for such trimmed down Python?
>
> 4) How slow would it be on lets say 16Mhz 80x86?
>
> I am asking because I would like to use python for glue code in
> embedded system. It is not a real time embedded system. Anyway if
> not python, can you point me to some other free interpeter
> suitable for embedding in such a limited system?
Can't answer you directly, but you should definitely have
a look at "Deeply Embedded Python":
http://www.abo.fi/~iporres/python/
Their effort will at least give you an idea of what is possible.
For 16-bit Python have a look at the (old?) WPY distribution
which you can download from www.python.org.
--
Marc-Andre Lemburg
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