On 2021-01-12, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 3:18 AM Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> On 2021-01-12, songbird <songb...@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 -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
