Python in an embedded environment

[Martin von Loewis]

"Robert Cragie" <rcc at nospamthanks_jennic.com> writes:

> Has anybody looked into this already, and if so, could they give me some
> pointers to any docs. etc?

There has been a number of successful attempts to port Python to
various target systems. As this only requires a C compiler, most of
these porters did not care enough to talk about that.

The real challenge was to downsize the Python distribution so it works
better in such environments, and many people have attempted doing so,
with varying degrees of success. The most extensive report of such a
project is the Deeply Embedded Python, at

http://www.abo.fi/~iporres/python/

Depending on how much memory you have on your target system, and how
much functionality Python scripts should have, you could scale-up
again from that.

Hope this helps,
Martin