On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 9:12 AM, Nima <nima....@gmail.com> wrote: > I'd like to install python on an embedded system. It's a powerful x86- > based computer with the only limitation of having a small-size flash > ROM as its secondary storage. So there is no hard drive and the system > is booted from the flash memory. > The operating system, BusyBox (a flavor of Linux), and other > applications occupy most of the flash memory. As the subject implies, > Python isn't already installed on the box. I tried to compile/install > python on a Linux box which roughly took 60MB of the memory. The > maximum amount of Flash memory I'm permitted to use is about 10-20 MB. > Is there a light-weight implementation of python which I could use? Is > there a way to remove unnecessary modules? > BTW, > + I'm supposed to write a web management interface for this system > (using python). > + I know how to use Google! > + I'm a newbie, so please be gentle :) > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >
I'm not an expert, but there are probably a large-ish number of modules you could remove without much sacrifice on your part. Looking at the module list and just picking the platform-dependent ones: * _winreg * aepack * aetools * aetypes * AL * al * applesingle * autoGIL * buildtools * Carbon * cd * cfmfile * chunk * colorpicker * etc * etc * etc You could also probably remove things like 2to3, tabnanny, etc, and I doubt tkinter is doing you much good. I also recall someone at pycon talking about importing modules from a .zip archive. I'm not sure how easy/hard that is, but you may want to look at PEP 302. Geremy Condra -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
