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  Python box (home-use smart router) animalize81 <animalize81@gmail.com> - 2014-05-27 15:33 +0800
    Re: Python box (home-use smart router) "Rhodri James" <rhodri@wildebst.org.uk> - 2014-05-29 00:03 +0100

#72104 — Python box (home-use smart router)

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.

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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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