Re: Python box (home-use smart router)

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On Tue, 27 May 2014 08:33:42 +0100, animalize81 <animalize81@gmail.com>  
wrote:

> Home-use smart router is more and more popular.
>
> If <Python Software Foundation> embeds Python into such router, and  
> develops a framework that has the following features:
>
> 1, allow power-down at any time
> 2, dynamic domain name
> 3, local storage support (SD cards or Hard Disk)
> 4, telnet server
> etc.
>
> Then we can create micro private server on it.
>
> Still can't see the full prospect, but it may be a great platform for  
> people's imagination.
>
> I think Python is very suitable for such role.

Have you met the Raspberry Pi?

Seriously, since many such "smart routers" are Linux boxes, there's a good  
chance there is already a Python interpreter installed and your list of  
other demands is already met.  It's certainly the case in the boxes I work  
on, and we do use Python for bits of system scripting.  We *don't* use  
Python for application writing because speed and space constraints are  
usually quite tight, which generally means coding in C for preference  
(despite my boss's attempts to force me to use C++).

-- 
Rhodri James *-* Wildebeest Herder to the Masses

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Python box (home-use smart router) animalize81 <animalize81@gmail.com> - 2014-05-27 15:33 +0800
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