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Can’t do everything ..

Alas, I’m not going to be able to make PyCon this year .. Because I’m a finalist in the IGF Mobile competition 🙂  And the GDC is happening the same week as PyCon.  Oh well, can’t do everything.  I wish I could go to both, PyCon was a blast last year!

That said, some of us tinypy folks might do a tinypy sprint at the same time as the PyCon sprints.  So if there are any people at PyCon who want to sprint on tinypy, get in touch and we can all work together in #tinypy somewhere.  Further news about this sprint will be available in the tinypy mailing list.

tinypy has progressed a bit since I last posted about it.  It’s probably sandboxed and it now has meta methods.  If there are some serious smart VM coders who are interested, we could use a hand.  tinypy is as fast as python for some tasks, but for other things it is around 1/2 the speed of python.  It also uses more memory than python.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, February 18th, 2009 at 10:00 pm and is filed under python, tinypy. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

4 Responses to “Can’t do everything ..”

  1. Dave Says:
    February 19th, 2009 at 1:15 am

    Does tinypy let you install it on a usb stick and say walk up to a machine and run some python scripts (subprocess, os, sys modules) to call out to executables on the stick without installing anything on the host PC to make tinypy work?

  2. philhassey Says:
    February 19th, 2009 at 10:10 am

    Not really 🙂 tinypy is more of “lua with python-like syntax” .. so it includes very few python modules and only a subset of python syntax and features.

    (Which is partly why I’m wishing it were a bit faster! It doesn’t do nearly as much as real python.)

  3. Dave Says:
    February 20th, 2009 at 4:12 am

    There was something, somewhere that triggered my memory that someone was working on python on a data stick idea… a little google-fu and its portable python.. My bad for brain cross-fart!

  4. John Harrison Says:
    February 25th, 2009 at 10:39 am

    Well then why the hell am I going to PyCon?