*Real* Python on a PDA

[Jeff Kunce]

>> ... Agenda Linux PDA ...
>
> How much free memory does a running Python process have on the
> machine?  Enough to build a sizable UI or crunch a moderately large
> amount of data?

That's a little hard to say - I'm not exactly how the memory management
works - but the 'free' command shows 761K free at bootup, then 726K
after launching python. I tried appending the integers from 1 to ? to
a list, and it died somewhere between 100,000 and 200,000 (that's
with ppp and telnet running)

X and FLTK are always running, so UI shouldn't be a big load.

The python port is pretty much straight-out-of-the-box. It
could use some expert tuning (module selection, etc)

>And has anyone built any apps in Python for it?

None for public consumption that I know of.

> (I've been speculating about getting an Agenda for a while; bonus
> points if the Agenda could prove useful at work...)

I justified mine as 'deep background research' - and that was just
to myself :)   It is very cool, a great toy, and has *potential* as
a real tool.

  --Jeff