Roy Smith <roy <at> panix.com> writes: > > What's the smallest/cheapest/lowest-power hardware platform I can run > Python on today? I'm looking for something to use as a hardware > controller in a battery-powered device and want to avoid writing in C > for this project.
It depends *which* Python. Complete Python implementations (CPython, PyPy, IronPython, Jython) will have stronger requirements than minimal / incomplete implementations. As for CPython, it needs a C compiler, decent POSIX support, a 32-bit CPU at least, and realistically you won't do much with at least 8 MB RAM. We actually have a buildbot which regularly tests building and running of CPython on an ARM machine: http://www.python.org/dev/buildbot/all/buildslaves/warsaw-ubuntu-arm It's a Cortex A8 with 1GB RAM, though, so I don't know if it's in your range (but 1GB is not needed at all, except that it's nice when running the full regression test suite). Regards Antoine. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
