Python for small systems (ucLinux)

[David Brown]

"Grant Edwards" <grante at visi.com> wrote in message
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> In article <b2djc9$vdp$1 at news.netpower.no>, David Brown wrote:
>
> > I am going to be writing an application that will run on a
> > ucLinux system. It works mostly like a real Linux system
> > (except there is no MMU, meaning no virtual memory and no
> > protection between process' memory areas), but is a lot more
> > limited in resources compared to most Linux systems - perhaps 4
> > MB Flash and 8 MB Ram in total.  Does anyone know of projects
> > using python in such limited systems?
>
> Once upon a time, there was a project called "deeply embedded
> python" that was running Python on an embedded system (I don't
> think there was any OS, but I don't recall).  It ran in
> something like a few hundred KB of memory.
>
> Here's a mailing list posting about it:
>
>
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-announce-list/1999-August/000157.htm
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>
> The URL in that posting doesn't work anymore, so it may take
> some detective work to dig up more info.

I spotted that too, and dug around - I couldn't find anything current on it.

>
> Somebody else has already pointed you towards the Palm stuff.
> That's probably more current.

I found a couple of links to palm python (including the one given by another
poster here).  They seem to be very palm-specific, and out-of-date (two and
half years old, python 1.5).  However, I have also spotted occasional
mailing list archive posts about python and ucLinux - it looks a lot like
people have just taken the current python source and tried it pretty much
as-is.  I guess I will too, if I don't find anyone who has done it before.


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