Hi Anthony, Welcome to the python users mailing list.
On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 9:32 AM, Anthony Papillion <papill...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > <gush> > I'm a new list member from the United States. Long time programmer, > fairly new to Python and absolutely loving it so far! I'm 36, live in > Oklahoma, and own a small Linux software development and consulting > firm. Python has made my life a *lot* easier and, the more I learn, > the easier it gets. Simply blown away. > </gush> > > Now, for my question: I'm taking on a project that will run on plug > computers and I'm thinking about using Python to do it. It seems like > a really attractive option over C/C++ and I think it would cut down > the dev time immensely. I know a scaled down version of Debian can run > on the computer but I'm wondering about Python. > > Has anyone ever used Python to develop for extremely limited resource > computers like this? Specifically, I'm going to be using the DreamPlug > (http://www.geek.com/articles/gadgets/dreamplug-puts-a-1-2ghz-arm-pc-in-a-power-outlet-2011022/) > which isn't too shabby but I wonder if it will work. > >From the link you've given, I see that the device has a 1.2GHz ARM processor and 512M RAM. That doesn't sound like an extremely limited resource device. Python runs very well on a Nokia N900, for example, which has a 600MHz ARM processor and 256M RAM (from memory, might not be exact). -- regards, kushal -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
