Micro Python

Since there isn’t a port of Python 3 for RISC OS, as far as I can tell, has anyone considered porting Micro Python (http://micropython.org/) instead? It’s aimed at ARM-based hardware so I imagine it should run reasonably well on existing RISC OS systems.

Looks like it is rather low level, being aimed at microcontrollers (I presume, without an underlying OS?). Note that it warns “WARNING: this project is in early beta stage and is subject to large changes of the code-base, including project-wide name changes and API changes.”.

BTW, what does Python offer over BASIC, C, Lua, etc that we already have?

BTW, what does Python offer over BASIC, C, Lua, etc

Probably more pertinent to ask “What does micro Python offer over BASIC, C, Lua, etc and Python 2?”

and “has anyone considered working on Python 3 so that it is re-included in the official Python availability list like Python 2 for RISC OS”

It is indeed aimed at microcontrollers but there is also a port to Unix. I thought it might suit RISC OS better than standard Python 3 because it supports things like inline assembly language and improved control over memory usage.

I wonder how hard it would be to get RISC OS back into the official list of Python 3 platforms. The code was left out of the Python 3 codebase in the late 2000s due to lack of a RISC OS maintainer for Python 2.

Rick: The ability to use the script for my Wireless dongle, so I can change it from within RISC OS? :@D

I’;m sure it can be re-coded into one of the others but like most time is not on my side! :@(

If you’re talking about configuring a Vonets dongle… You can’t. RISC OS doesn’t appear to support the required connection type.

https://www.riscosopen.org/forum/forums/11/topics/2391

RISC OS doesn’t appear to support the required connection type.

I wasn’t sure at the time that the stuff you were trying to do and didn’t get around to digging out¹ the crappy old test code I did when playing with the DNS blacklist query stuff that proved certain things could be done on RO. Then I moved on to nudging Frank about doing that in AntiSpam. When he did the first test elements I stashed to old code – somewhere – probably on the Iyonix with the lightning strike affected NIC. Bung an Intel gig card in and that beast should be OK (says he inviting disaster)

Time to go home.

¹ If I can find it, I will send you a copy