Smallest/cheapest possible Python platform?

Gelonida N gelonida at gmail.com
Sun May 27 13:18:40 EDT 2012


On 05/27/2012 05:37 PM, Colin J. Williams wrote:
> 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.
>
DO you know which python version.Is it a pyton with or without ctypes.

Without ctypes one will have rather limited access  to anything board 
specific?







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