On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 1:07 PM, Anand Chitipothu <anandol...@gmail.com>wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Vishal <vsapr...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Anand Balachandran Pillai < >> abpil...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 11:40 AM, Vishal <vsapr...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > > Hello, >> > > >> > > Does anybody know of any effort that can covert a relatively static >> > version >> > > of python code into assembly for use with microcontrollers ? >> > > >> > >> > Just wondering what is the need for this ? If you are coding in Python >> > in the first place do you really want to go down all the way to assembly >> > code output ? In that case I think you should start off with C rather >> > than Python. >> > >> > >> Very good question. Here's the situation. In one of our products, we >> create the control app in Python, but then need to control physical >> outputs/inputs of analog and digital nature. We need to use a >> microcontroller board for this. The microcontroller still needs lot of >> software, an RTOS, and number of tasks (serial, ADC, PWM etc etc). All >> this >> software needs to be written in the preferred dialect of C and using the >> preferred compiler of the vendor (MPLAB for Microchip's PIC controllers >> etc). It would be great if we could simply write in Python and then have >> this converted to the preferred microcontroller's assembly either as >> direct >> binary files or creating a C file with the assembly code inside asm() >> calls >> and then passing this C file to the MPLAB compiler. >> >> Life can go on even without this hack...but this hack would make life >> easier and more productive. >> > > Python is too heavyweight to port it to a microcontroller. May be you > should give a try to something like lua. > > http://www.lua.org/ > > Lua is a lightweight, embeddable programming language. > > I don't any experience with it, but I've seem people using it in as > embedded scripting language. For example lighttpd has a hook to run lua > scripts. > or scheme, if you are adventurous. Anand _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
