Python for small systems (ucLinux)

[Frank Miles]

In article <b2djc9$vdp$1 at news.netpower.no>,
David Brown <david at no.westcontrol.spam.com> 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?  Obviously I'll be looking for a limited and cut-down
>version of python - I'll only want a tiny fraction of the available
>libraries, and will not need to handle source code interpretation or
>compilation - I would generate .pyc compiled files on a normal Linux system.
>Basically, what I need is the python byte-code interpreter, along with a few
>critical libraries.
>
>Since the alternative (write the app in C/C++) will undoutably take more
>time and effort than writing the app in python, I am happy to work on such a
>system, rather than expecting to find a complete, ready-to-run package, but
>I would much prefer to find out about existing efforts and opinions as to
>how feasable this is before wading in myself.

It might take a lot of work, but the project to create a Python
interpreter for the Palm platform might have some useful information.
Try:
	http://www.isr.uci.edu/projects/sensos/python/software.html

	-frank
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