Pythom in embedded system?

[M.-A. Lemburg]

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.

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Marc-Andre Lemburg
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