[GTALUG] Looking for Someone to Answer some Questions - the python fork

[Stewart Russell]

On Tue, Jan 15, 2019, 08:13 Alvin Starr via talk <talk at gtalug.org wrote:

> >
> It may be old but if the description of the memory footprint is correct
> then it looks to be the smallest implementation which has some value in
> memory constrained applications.
>

IIRC PyMite (another name for this project) was a subset of the Python 2
language and had to be fed special bytecode. It wasn't an interpreter of
any form of Python we'd recognize. It hasn't been actively developed for a
decade.

While MicroPython/CircuitPython is much bigger (smallest system that's
useful would be a 256 K flash/32 K RAM Cortex-M0) it's a fair subset of
Python 3 with REPL and library support. The best value is definitely on
ESP8266 boards, where you get a fully wifi-capable embedded appliance for
under $5. MicroPython runs on many targets, including generic Unix and even
bare-metal on a Raspberry Pi Zero.

 Stewart
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