[ANN] MicroPython 1.5

[paul.hermeneutic at gmail.com]

What is the possibility that MicroPython could be another build from the
base python.org sources? Python already gets built for a variety of
architectures. Could a MicroPython be another one? In that way, it would
always be up to date on language changes.

On Sun, Nov 8, 2015 at 11:28 AM, Paul Rubin <no.email at nospam.invalid> wrote:

> Paul Sokolovsky <pmiscml at gmail.com> writes:
> > Recent 1.5 release is an important milestone for the project, major
> > changes including:
>
> Thanks for posting this.  We don't hear enough about MicroPython on
> this newsgroup so it's good to get these announcements.
>
> Is the language still Python 3.4?  Will it implement 3.5 sometime soon?
>
> > 1. Advanced REPL support with smart auto-indent and auto-completion
>
> Hmm does this make the code footprint significantly bigger?
>
> > 2. Support for client SSL connections.
>
> Nice.  Does it check the server certificate?  Is it based on TLSLite by
> any chance?
>
> > 5. There're now 2 well-supported microcontroller boards for
> > MicroPython, and dozen(s) community-supported ones.
>
> The PyBoard is very nice, but what is the other one?  I don't see
> anything about it on the MicroPython web site.  (Hmm, maybe you mean the
> Micro Bit).
>
> Btw, I notice that the "store" page doesn't show any products under my
> normal adblock settings.  It's probably best to make it a normal page
> instead of an AJAX one.
>
> > MicroPython supports growing subset of Python3 standard library
> > (including simplified asyncio package)
>
> This would look much nicer with the new Python 3.5 syntax.
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