On 4/8/2014 3:22 PM, veegee wrote:
> In no way would Python be like C. There is at least one attempt at a
> minimal implementation for running Python on microcontrollers (can't find
> it at the moment), but it might as well be called C with syntactic sugar.

Which is then verifying what I said.

>   There's no advantage trying to use Python on microcontrollers. C is
> very well suited for this.
>
>

Right, but I was saying "wouldn't it be nice ..."

Here's one implementation. It appears to be much more than 'C with=20
syntactic sugar'

https://code.google.com/p/python-on-a-chip/

Features of the PyMite VM:

  * Requires roughly 55 KB program memory
  * Initializes in 4KB RAM; print "hello world" needs 5KB; 8KB is the
    minimum recommended RAM.
  * Supports integers, floats, tuples, lists, dicts, functions, modules,
    classes, generators, decorators and closures
  * Supports 25 of 29 keywords and 89 of 112 bytecodes from Python 2.6
  * Can run multiple stackless green threads (round-robin)
  * Has a mark-sweep garbage collector
  * Has a hosted interactive prompt for live coding
  * Licensed under the GNU GPL ver. 2

The PyMite VM DOES NOT HAVE:

  * A built-in compiler
  * Any of Python's libraries (no batteries included)
  * A ready-to-go solution for the beginner (you need to know C and how
    to work with microcontrollers)



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