Smallest/cheapest possible Python platform?

[Colin J. Williams]

On 26/05/2012 12:25 PM, Paul Rubin wrote:
> Roy Smith<roy at panix.com>  writes:
>> The Rasberry Pi certainly looks attractive, but isn't quite available
>> today.  Can you run Python on an Arduino?
>
> No.  YOu want a 32-bit platform with an OS and perhaps 1 meg of memory.
> And by the time you port Python to it unless it's there already, you may
> as well have just written your application in C.

Python is available and included with the Debian distribution for the 
RPi.  32 bit and smaller operations are provided.  Floating point is by 
software.  A FPU is available for the AIM processor, but not provided 
with the BRCM 2835 board.

Colin W.

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