On Nov 19, 2007 11:17 AM, Malte Forkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would like to use Python on a router, an Edimax BR-6104K, running OpenWrt > (http://www.openwrt.org). While I probably won't need most of the fancier > stuff in Python, serial I/O and threads should be supported. > > The router is based on the ADM5120P, has 2MB of flash and 16MB of RAM, so the > version of Python 2.5.1 that is part of OpenWrt is probably a litte to big. >
You can reduce the size of the Python shared library considerably by removing builtin modules, especially the built-in cjk codecs (I just built without them on windows and reduced the size to 1.5 megs, down from 2.5). That may or not be enough to get the size into useful range for you. This device may not really be suitable for Python - with so much more RAM than flash, it seems that you're supposed to have a tiny kernel and that most of the ram will be used for runtime data structures, rather than for executable code. Even a very minimal Python library will require a fair amount of space for .pyc files. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
