A beginning beginner's question about input, output and . . .

[Grant Edwards]

On 2021-01-12, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 3:18 AM Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 2021-01-12, songbird <songbird at anthive.com> wrote:
>>
>> >   it can be used for pretty much anything except perhaps
>> > high pressure real time things, but i bet someone else will
>> > know that is being done too, i've just not heard of it.  :)
>>
>> AFAIK, Python can't be used to write device drivers for any popular OS
>> (Linux, Unix, Windows, OSX). It also can't be used on small embedded
>> systems (real-time or not).
>
> Depends how small.

Of course.

> An RPi has a full Linux system and can easily run Python scripts;
> and the pyboard runs a dedicated Python interpreter called
> MicroPython, broadly compatible with CPython 3.5, I think (some 3.x
> version, anyhow), albeit with a cut-down standard library. The
> pyboard is pretty tiny; according to the micropython.org blurb, it
> has 192KB RAM.

Yes, that's tiny compared to the desktop machine I'm posting from, but
I work with ARM parts (that are in active production production and
not EOL) with 2KB of RAM and 8KB of flash.

--
Grant