On Wed, Nov 6, 2019 at 7:54 PM Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: > I don't know how much Linux is customized for RP, but last I knew, > Python on RP is MicroPython, not CPython. So I expect OS-related > functions to not necessarily match Linux on a desktop.
The default OS on all Raspberry Pi models is Raspbian, a full-blown Debian Linux derivative, which comes with Python 2 and Python 3 installed -- CPython, to be clear. MicroPython was designed for microcontroller boards that are too small to run an OS. Popular boards are the BBC microbit and ESP8266. Those devices don't run Linux. To use MicroPython on them, you install firmware that boots directly into the MicroPython runtime, which includes a REPL. Cheers, Luciano > > -- > Terry Jan Reedy > > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- Luciano Ramalho | Author of Fluent Python (O'Reilly, 2015) | http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920032519.do | Technical Principal at ThoughtWorks | Twitter: @ramalhoorg -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
